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TO THE 

gtulreitte in astrology. 

AND THE 

PUBLIC IN GENERAL. 


Cold, power, soft luxury, vain sports, and ease, 

Possess the world, and have the luck to please: 

Few study Heaven, unmindful of their state, 

Vain stupid man ! hut this itself is fate. 

V . ^ t V ^ oaaanMM 

THE n bject of this work is to elucidate the Science 
of Astrology, by a selection from the best and most es¬ 
teemed Authors, with remarks and improvements 
suggested by long practice. To persons acquainted 
with the Science, it mnst be obvious that some Work 
of this nature is imperiously called for, to rescue the 
Astral Art from the disgrace likely to be thrown upon 
it, by a recent Publication of a most singular nature:* 
no nonsensical hieroglyphics are given, as it must be 
plain to every one that they can answer no purpose 
but this, that by being of an obscure nature, they may 
afterwards be explained in any way which may best 
agree with succeeding events. 

* The Straggler. 



IV 


A few articles are given explanatory of Astronomi¬ 
cal principles as applied to this Science, by which 
any person, however ignorant of Astronomy, will be 
able to comprehend all of it that is necessary towards 
a proficiency in Astrology. 

The most plain and simple instructions are given to 
erect a figure of the Heavens to any required period, 
followed by easy rules to enable a person, in a short 
time, to judge for himself as to the general truth of 
the Science. 

The best rules are selected from the works of 
Ptolemy, Placidus, Partridge,* &c. for the indgment 
and calculation of nativities ; illustrate! examples 
from the genitures of persons, many of N them now 
living, who have been distinguished by a succession of 
fortunate or unfortunate events, remarkable accidents, 
severe illnesses, or violent deaths. 

Some curious remarks, made from practice, on the 
nature and effects of the newly-discovered planet 
Herschel; in short, every part of the Science, from its 
most abstruse principles are examined and explained. 

* The latter is generally allowed to have been the most acute and 
scientific Author that ever wrote in the English language on this 
subject. 


ADDRESS. 


Long established custom has rendered a prefatory 
Address so essential to the first appearance of a Work, that the 
absence of it might be supposed to imply a want of proper re¬ 
spect, and from the peculiar circumstances under which we begin 
our Work, it becomes a matter not of choice, but necessity. Ap¬ 
pearing as we do the professed advocates of a Science generally 
thought fictitious, we must of course give some reasons for our 
convic tion of its truth. On examining the great mass of persons 
who disbelieve in Astrology, it is a remarkable circumstance that 
it is fou"d to.cons,ist of those who from indolence or want of op¬ 
portune tc^ ' jtally unacquainted with its principles. On the 
other htnitff those who have taken the trouble to investigate the 
Science, are unanimous in declaring their firm belief that the 
Heavenly Bodies are the principal rulers of human affairs. 

It is needless to say in such a case which is the best evi- 
dence. From the ignorance of our adversaries of the principles 
of the Science which they affect to contemn, we are precluded 
from reasoning with them on any inferences drawn from its rules. 
We must therefore confine ourselves to those subjects on which 
all men confess, that the Planets are likely to have some degree 
of influence One of the most prominent of these-is the Tides, 
and we imagine that the most bigoted of our opponents will not 
deny that the luminaries have an effect upon the w ater. The as¬ 
sertion that the Planets have an effect upon the air is likely to 
meet with more opposition; but if the luminaries can excite such 
a motion in so dense a fluid as that of water, it is surely not un¬ 
reasonable to suppose that it must have an eminent effect upon 
so light a one as air 


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ADDRESS. 


Bat from this extreme lightness, it is also reasonable to ima¬ 
gine, that the other Heavenly Bodies will come in for their 
share of the effects, and in this case each will act differently 
according to its different nature, as a proof that this is the case, 
we need only refer to the extremely heavy rains, and the cold 
weather we experienced last Spring, during the conjunction of 
the Sun and Saturn, and the remarkable change that has taken 
place since the approach of the former to Jupiter. We think 
we have proved that it is probable that the Planets may have an 
effect on the weather, and in the present Number we shall 
endeavour to prove this is actually the case. We now come 
to the more difficult task of showing that they may affect human 
beings; we certainly must in this case beg of our Readers to 
suspend their judgment till they have learned the first rudiments 
of the Science. It may not however be improper to remark the 
influence which the Moon is proverbially known tojl\a^“*ion the 
minds of lunatics, and a person acquainted with ^j/could 

not fail to observe, that the violence of the malady is inach in¬ 
creased when the luminaries are afflicted by the malefics. 

The time of gestation, both in man and other animals, appear 
to have a singular agreement with the periods of the lunar mo¬ 
tion, and it certainly does not seem improbable that a power 
affecting us so materially in our first stage of existence, should 
exert an influence over us during the remainder of our lives. It 
may not now be improper for us to state the reasons which have 
induced us to bring forward this Publication. A principal 
reason is, the desire we feel to place a Science, which has been 
our favorite study for many years, on an equal footing with 
other branches of Natural Philosophy. Another not less power¬ 
ful, is a wish to prevent a rational and valuable Science from 
being confounded with the trash called by certain persons Po¬ 
pular Astrology. We have certainly no wish to injure any 
person in the public opinion, but when we see a parcel of non¬ 
sense palmed on the public as Astrology, we consider ourselves 


ADDRESS. 


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fully justified in exposing the deception. What this Popular 
Astrology is we have yet to learn ; it may be for aught we know 
that practised by the straggling professors of the University of 
Norwood; but from what we have seen, we should be very sorry 
to see it confounded with Judicial Astrology. Influenced by 
these considerations, we have brought forward the present 
Work, and we feel confident of the patronage and support of 
the Public. All we ask for ourselves is a patient and impartial 
hearing; for Astrology, a fair and candid examination; and every 
thing that we can do towards elucidating and explaining it shall 
be done, and we are convinced that no person who investigates 
it properly, will long be doubtful as to its truth. 







EXPLANATION OF THE CHARACTERS USED 
IN THIS WORK. 

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SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 


Y' Aries. 

55 Cancer. 

Libra. 

0 Taurus. 

SI Leo - 

TTV Scorpio. 

II Gemini. 

Virgo. 

$ Sagittarius. 


V? Capricorn. 
ZZ Aquarius. 
X Pisces. 


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Saturn. 


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Venus. 

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0 Sun. 

([ Moon. 


ASPECTS. 

c/ Conjunction. | Sextile. J Q Quariile. | A Trine. 
£ Opposition . 


o Degrees, j ' Minutes. J " Seconds, j Thirds. 


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No. 1.] THURSDAY, AUG. 5, 1824. [Price 4d. 


NATIVITY OF QUEEN CAROLINE. 



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REMARKS ON THE NATIVITY OF QUEEN CAROLINE. 

We have no doubt our Readers will feel much interest in the 
Nativity of a person so unfortunate through life. At the same 
time, we wish to convince them that we have not made 
a date of our own, the source whence our information was de¬ 
rived, is the “ Monthly Correspondent,” for June 1, 1814, 
page 256. To satisfy the curiosity of a friend about the time of 
the Coronation, we were induced to catculate this Nativity, And 
the planetary positions were such as to justify our prediction 
that she would never wear the Crown of England. The reason 
which we gave for this opinion was formed on the evjl nature of 
the directions then operating, viz. the Sun to the conjunction of 
Mars in mundo converse motion, and the midheaven to the 
mundane seiniquartile of the Sun. 

The positions of the planets at the time of •- Coronation, 
(July 19, 1821, lh. 25min. P. M.) were as follows:— 

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0 1 R I 26 12 I 28 37 I 14 31 I 12 5 | 16 1R | 20 26 | 23 0 

At which time we find Mars has Just pas«ed the cusp of the 
ascendant, the place of the Moon, and the square of his own 
place, which greatly tended to augment the power of the ope¬ 
rating directions, and which in our opinion, considering the 
affliction of the luminaries in the radix, was quite sufficient to 
produce death. In taking a general view of the Nativity, we 
find the Moon by latitude is just above the horizon, nearly in 
zodiacal parallel with Saturn, and in partile square to Mars in 
the zodiac, the latter is in mundane square to Saturn, both of 
which are iu seiniquartile to the Moon in the world, which indi¬ 
cates severe misfortunes, and an indifferent state of health. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 7 

The ^position of the infortunes afflicting the midheaven, is pro¬ 
ductive of numerous enemies, and persons who from natural an¬ 
tipathy would always be injurious to the natives fortune and 
character. In this Nativity the Sun is but four mundane de¬ 
grees from the ascendant, and consequently claims the hylegiacal 
power, and as the light of time, he must also be observed as sig- 
nificator of honor and prosperity ; that the native would have a 
very small share of the latter, is indicated by the afflicting posi¬ 
tion of the two infortunes, and the vital principle would be 
equally weakened from the same cause; had not the Moon 
been in trine to Jupiter, it is difficult to say what adversity the 
native would have experienced; however Jupiter is very weak 
in the figure, and is thus unable to afford that assistance which 
might otherwise, have been expected, and to say the truth, we 
have seldom seen a Nativity that has exhibited more affliction. 

With re 'U* to the natives abilities and disposition, we find 

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Mercury in Taurus combust, in conjunction with Venus and 
Herschel in mundane semiquartile and zodiacal sextile to Saturn, 
also in sextile to Mars. The latter having the declination of 
Venus, and receiving her sextile, denotes more than is proper for 
us to explain. The sextile of Mars and Mercury shows consi¬ 
derable acuteness, and in a male geniture would have given 
much dexterity in mechanical operations; it may be inferred from 
the conjunction of Mercury and Venus, that the native was no 
mean proficient in music and the fine arts, particularly as Mars 
and Venus are in sextile. The square of Mars and the Moon 
gives no inconsiderable portion of the angry passions, and al¬ 
though these may be moderated by the aspect of Saturn to the 
Moon, the disposition is not by any means improved. 


(To be continued.) 


TABLE of the Magnitudes, Periods, and Revolution of the Planets, calculated and arranged 

from the latest and best Authorities. 



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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRECEDING TABLE. 

It is not our intention to give an elaborate or voluminous 
Treatise on Astronomy, nor is it our design to teach those who 
have made any proficiency in it. No ! but our design is to teach 
those who have no previous hnowledge of the subject, the ru¬ 
diments of the science, so far as is necessary towards laying 
the foundation of the sublime science of Astrology; and likewise 
to satisfy the curiosity of those whose genius prompts them to 
the contemplation of this heavenly science, but are not capable 
of understanding abstruse or learned authors, who for the most 
part, instead of explaining their conceptions to those ignorant of 
the subject, have by their rhetorical figures and high-flow n ex¬ 
pressions (which of themselves need an expositor), deterred 
many from attempting, and the most from proceeding in this 
study, Wj<3 do not speak out of any disrespect to those learned 
men, whose works we reverence and admire; but in regard to the 
inability of those of limited education to understand the terms of 
art, without plain and familiar explanations. We shall therefore 
in the course of this Work endeavour to avoid as much as pos¬ 
sible these inconveniencies, and make use of such terms only, 
as will be easily understood, or sufficiently explained. Though 
whilst we endeavour to speak more plainly, perhaps by some, we 
may be thought to speak less learnedly; but if we attain the end 
we aim at, we care not, which is to be understood by any one that 
understands common sense and plain English. 

In the foregoing Table you have at one view most of the par¬ 
ticulars relating to the Solar system*, and what is not taken 

* Authors do not exactly agree with respect to the distances, 
&c. of the planets, but make them something more or less, we have 
chosen the mean, and think it will be found nearly correct. 

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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


notice of, we will instruct those who have the slightest knowledge 
in figures to find. First, by having the distance of a planet 
from the Sun given, and its annual period round the same, to 
find its hourly motion in its orbit. Let us take the Earth for 
example, its mean distance from the Sun according to the Table 
is 95,000,000 of miles, consequently the mean diameter of its 
orbit must be 190,000,000 of miles, then by having the diameter 
of a circle given, the circumference will be found to be three 
times and about one-seventh more, or it may be found more 
nearly, and much more easily, by multiplying the diameter by 
3,1416 (here the learner must note that the 3 is a whole number, 
and the four other figures decimals, so he must be careful in 
cutting off the four last figures, after multiplying for decimals, 
and the rest will be whole numbers.) Then the diameter of the 
Earth’s orbit 190,000,000, multiplied by 3,1416 will give 
596,886,000 for the circumference of the Earth’s ojjjr v "; this di¬ 
vided by 8766, the number of hours in 365 days 6 hours^ which by 
the Table is its annual period, will give 68,091 miles, thus the 
inhabitants of the Earth are carried by its annual .revolution, 
68,000, and 91 miles per hour, in its orbit. Thus you see 
you have nothing to do but double the distance of the planet 
from the Sun, which gives the diameter of its orbit, and this 
multiplied by 3,1416 gives the circumference, the product di¬ 
vided by the time of its making its annual.period round the Sun, 
gives you the hourly motion of any of the planets in their orbits. 
Thus by simple multiplication and division this apparently dif¬ 
ficult question is answered. Again, by having the diameter of 
a planet given, and its circumference found as before, (viz. by 
multiplying the diameter by 3,1416) and dividing the product 
by its diurnal rotation on its axis, will give you the hourly mo¬ 
tion of its equator. Let us take the Earth again for an ex- 


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ample, its diameter according to the Table is 7984 miles, this 
multiplied by 3,1416 will give 25,020 miles nearly for the cir 
cumference of the Earth. This divided by 24, the number of 
hours it is turning on its axis, will give 1,042 miles nearly, for 
the hourly motion of its equator, so thus you see we are carried 
6b,000 and 91 miles every hour by its annual, and 1000 and 42 
miles by its diurnal motion per hour. This perhaps you may 
say is an extraordinary rate to travel at, and not to be suscep¬ 
tible of its motion? It certainly is, but one can be no more 
sensible of its moving, than a person in the cabin of a ship can 
perceive her motion, when she turns gently round on smooth 
water. Some have imagined, that if the earth turned round on 
its axis, a ball shot up perpendicularly from a. cannon would 
fall down a considerable distance from the place from whence 
it was bred; this objection will appear to be of little weight 
when consider that the gun and ball partake of the Earth’s 
motion, and that the ball being carried forward in the air as 
quick as the earth and air turn, must fall on the same place. 
Thus a stone let fall from the top of a mast, if it be not ob¬ 
structed, will fall on the deck as near the foot of the mast if the 
ship be sailing,, as if she were not, for the stone and mast will 
both partake of the ship’s motion. Again, by having the pla¬ 
nets annual period round the Sun, and by knowing that the 
ecliptic (which is the Earth’s path round the Sun), consists of 
360 degrees, may be found the daily mean motion of the Earth 
in its orbit, or the apparent mean motion of the Sun in a day: 
Thus for the Earth, by the rule of proportion, as 365 days 6 
hours, is to 360 degrees; so is 1 day to 59 min. 8 sec., the 
daily mean motion of the Earth in its orbit, or the apparent mean 
motion of the Sun in a day. The same manner may all the 
planet’s mean daily motion be found. With respect to the nodes 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


of the planets, they are liable to a little variation, but so trifling, 
that {lie place ascribed to them in the Table will do without any 
material alteration for a century to come. And note, that when 
either of the inferior planets, that is Mercury or Venus comes to 
either of their nodes at their inferior conjunctions, (that is when 
they are between the Earth and the Sun) they will pass over 
the Sun’s disc, which can only happen when Mercury is in his as¬ 
cending node, that is Taurus 16 deg., or in the opposite or de¬ 
scending node, viz. 16 deg. of Scorpio. Now the Earth is in 
the 16th degrees of Taurus on the 7th of May, and in the 16th 
degrees of Scorpio on the 8th of November^ consequently those 
are the ouly times these appearances can happen to Mercury, for 
in all other parts of his orbit, he goes either above or below the 
Sun, therefore his conjunctions are invisible; the same with 
respect to Venus. Perihelion is that point in the orbit of the 
Earth, or of any other planet, which is nearest to the Sun, and 
the Earth is in its Perihelion in 9 deg. of Cancer, then the ap¬ 
parent place of the Sun w ill be 9 deg. of Capricorn, which will 
be about the 30th of December. It might seem strange hat we 
should be nearer the Sun in the w inter than the summer, and the 
Weather so much colder; but the reason that it is hottest when 
we are farthest from the Sun is, that in winter when we are 
nearest to him the days are shorter, his rays fall very obliquely on 
us, and are more dispersed than they are in summer, when he not 
only remains longer above the horizon, but being higher, his rays 
fall more directly on us, by which means the Earth becomes so 
much heated, that t has not time in the short nights to get cold 
again. Having suggested these few hints, we shall now take 
leave of the Reader until the ensuing week, when we shall give 
a general view of the solar system, and prepare him to pursue the 
study with spirit and pleasure": and in the course of his future 
study, the mofre accurate he is, the more w ill he discover of regu¬ 
larity, symmetry, and order in the constitution of the frame of 
nature. 



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ASTROLOGER’S TOCKET COMPANION. 

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

In treating of the different influences of the Planets, we must 
observe, that the description given in the following article must 
be considered as strictly applicable to them only, when not confi¬ 
gurated with each other. For though it has been the custom to 
consider the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, as the only changeable 
bodies, yet experience shows that the effects of the others are 
liable to be materially altered. 

For instance, should Jupiter be in square to Saturn, at the 
time of birth, his nature would be so changed, that he could 
afford little or no assistance to the giver of life in a series of ma¬ 
levolent directions. While on the other hand, if Saturn were 
favourably configurated with the beiiefics, his power of doing 
evil would be greatly circumscribed. 

OF HERSCHEL. 

VVe shall now proceed to treat of the effects of the most re¬ 
mote pla'W in our system, called Herschel, Georgium Sidus or 
Ouranos. * For the astronomical particulars of this planet, we 
refer our Readers to the Table given in this Number. His na¬ 
ture is similar to the combined influence of Saturn and Mer¬ 
cury, and he infuses into the constitutions of those persons in 
whose nativities he is most powerful, a'remarkable degree of 
eccentricity. He is decidedly malefic, and whatever he does of 
evil is always in the most strange and unexpected manner; if 
well configurated to Jupiter in a nativity, on a good direction, he 
will not unfrequently give a legacy, but it will always be from a 
quarter the least expected. We ourselves knew an instance of 
a person, in whose geniture Herschel w as well aspected, w ho 
received a large fortune from a gentleman, an entire stranger, 
that had quarrelled with all his relations. This star appears 
particularly inimical to the fair sex, and frequently leads them 
to those connexions which ensure disgrace and ruin. His evil 
aspects to the Hyleg, although not sufficient to terminate life of 
themselves, very materially contribute to hasten the effects of 
other malignant directions. He frequently causes the sudden 


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death of some relation according to his position in the radix. 
If placed in the ascendant, the native will be very remarkable 
for odd and eccentric actions. We have known a person in this 
case, to suddenly walk out of a room when surrounded by his 
most intimate friends, without taking leave of any one, or even 
knowing himself the reason of his conduct. Persons under his 
influence are generally of a romantic, roving, unsettled disposi¬ 
tion, much addicted to travelling, meeting with many strange 
adventures, seldom experiencing much matrimonial felicity, sub¬ 
ject to sudden reverses of fortune, and often terminating their 
lives far from their native land. From the very long period of 
his revolution, we are of course unable to describe to our Readers 
the form of body which he produces when in each of the twelve 
signs. It is needless to say that his influence must be taken 
into account in every nativity. When we consider how much 
this planet must have baffled the judgment of ancient Astro¬ 
logers, and when we also reflect that there may be others yet 
undiscovered, we cannot help remarking the,.folly and ignorance 
of those persons who require from the Astrologer, wh?'{they ex¬ 
pect from no one els e,JnfaUibilitj/. 

(To be continued.) 


CONSIDERATIONS ON TIIE GENERAL UTILITY OF 
ASTROLOGY. 

It is frequently argued by the opponents of this science, that, 
even Jf it be true, it is of no practical utility; and in support of 
this assertion, we have heard it urged that it is of no avail for a 
man to know before hand what must occur, seeing that his fore¬ 
knowledge will not avert the evil, or increase the good. This is 
one of many topics that are brought forward in consequence of 
the ignorance of the parties of the first principles of the science; 
and we do not doubt that our readers will,go with us in assert* 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 15 

ing, that before any matter be judged of, some little acquaint¬ 
ance with the nature of it should be formed ; some slight smatter¬ 
ing at least with the first principles of a science should seem to 
be useful, if not necessary, in forming an opinion of its merits; 
for where is the man who would not prefer the judgment of an 
architect to guide him in the purchase of an edifice, to that of an 
uninformed observer ? This is, nevertheless, the fate of Astro¬ 
logy in our enlightened age; unknown, unstudied, unenquired 
into, it is condemned, scouted at, and made the butt of ridicule. 
The church frowns on it, the Jaw presses the heavy hand of power 
on it, and the press affects to treat it with contempt. But why 
all this ? Precisely because its principles are not understood. It 
is generally supposed that Astrology is founded on an implicit be¬ 
lief in fatalism, and that the Astrologer denies entirely all free 
agency; and, this taken for granted, the question is put as we sat 
out, by stating, viz.—If an event, whether good or evil, must oc¬ 
cur, of what avail is it that we have a fore-knowledge of that 
event ? 

Our ob ject shall now be to shew that the conclusion drawn, 
which is invariably unfavourable to Astrology, is false, for the 
very cogent reason that the pre-mises are unfounded. Astrolo¬ 
gers do not believe in fatalism, for they know well, that although 
the planets influence, they do not compel; their power is exten¬ 
sive and immutable; but, except in particular instances, not rre- 
sistible. And it is for that very reason that Astrology is emi¬ 
nently useful, because it enables us to seize with avidity those 
moments where a beneficial influence does prevail, when by put¬ 
ting our shoulders to the wheel, we may overcome difficulties and 
add to our stock of happiness; while on the other hand, by being 
previously aware of an evil influence, such as may affect our 
health, or life, or fame, we may prudently avoid excess and 
danger, and that line of conduct which inclination may prompt; 
but which reason, through the medium of Astrology, points out 
to be pregnant with disgrace. 

It is of importance that in this view of the question, we should 
adhere to the matter under consideration, and keeping the reality 
of Astrology out of view for the present (as it is our intention to 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


treat on that in a future Number), reflect on the many and varied 
situations In life wherein a simple knowledge of the result of any 
undertaking will be found of the highest importance. The united 
voices of mankind cry out aloud—‘That a fore-knowledge of 
events, is the main object of human prudence.’ Why does the 
statesman plot, and study, and contrive, and waste the lamp of 
life to become acquainted with circumstances some short time be¬ 
fore his fellows, but because that unique knowledge will place 
him in a situation to circumvent his competitors, to confound his 
adversaries, and to wield the sceptre of power to his own pecu¬ 
liar advantage ? Why does the merchant press a sleep-forsaken 
pillow, but to plan some means of increasing his wealth in specu¬ 
lations, which too frequently prove ruinous ? And is not his anx¬ 
iety to know the result ? And are not his exertions made but to 
discover it by what he deems infallible calculations ? Astrology 
would have shewn him this result. In love, in law, in physic, in 
every undertaking in life, the foreknowledge of what degree of 
success we are likely to meet with, is of importance, which it 
surely requires no argument to prove, no facts to elucidate. Let 
us nevertheless take a small number of instances. Let us suppose 
a man, acquainted with Astrology, is about to make endeavours 
to win the affections of a woman who is dear to him; he finds, on 
consulting the science, that she has no regard for him, that she is 
wrapt up in the love of another, that there exists no probability 
of their union at any time, and that if it did occur, their disposi¬ 
tions are so ill-fitted to accord, that they would never be happy_ 

or let us suppose that he discovers that her parents or his own 
will be the obstacles to his wishes, that she has deceived him in 
her property, or that she is not a virtuous woman; is there no ad¬ 
vantage in these discoveries, or are they of no practical utility ? 

Or let us take the case of a person about to connect himself in 
business with another; is it of no utility to be enabled to ascer¬ 
tain that in contradiction to the report of his partial friends, he 
is of a careless, indolent disposition, that his means are not what 
they are stated, that he frequents the gaming table, and that the 
result will be ruin and misfortune? Lastly, is it of no avail to 
know in what line of life our children will be successful what the 



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17 


issue of a suit of law, when the recovery of a sick friend, and a 
thousand other things about which the mind may be anxious and 
desirous of information ? Again, the science may be made, and 
has been made, a source of wealth, by pointing out the peculiar 
line of speculation favourable to the student; it has in the same 
way been productive of honour and of power. In confirmation of 
these assertions we could quote many great names; we could 
mention individuals, now living, who are indebted to a foreknow¬ 
ledge, through its instrumentality, of the resu.ts of their under¬ 
takings in life, for the eminence they now enjoy. Among crowned 
heads w ho have reaped benefit from it, and not been ashamed to 
acknowledge this, stand most conspicuous Henry IV. of France, 
and the late Emperor Napoleon. These are not idle assertions 
but historical facts, which we defy the opponents of Astrology to 
disprove. 

We have not space to enlarge on this head at present, but shall 
recur to it occasionally w ith the perfect assurance, that before we 
have done, we shall satisfy all unprejudiced readers, that Astro¬ 
logy ougj't to be ranked high amongst the sciences most useful to 
mankind. 


ON THE WEATHER. 

* 

In conformity to the plan of our Publication, we shall now 
proceed to make a few observations on the Weather :— 

In what way the planets act upon the earth and its inhabit¬ 
ants, does not yet appear to be known. The ancient Astrologers 
supposed that their influence was transmitted to us by means of 
their light, but there seems no good reason for this supposition 
At this rate, Venus next to the luminaries, would be the most 
powerful of all the heavenly bodies, whereas the truth is, she is 
the weakest of those that possess any specific influence; while 
on the other hand, Saturn, one of the least luminous, is known 
to be more powerful than Jupiter himself. If we-were to hazard 






18 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

a conjecture in such a case, we should say that they acted on 
the atmosphere (at least,) by means of electricity. 

There certainly seems a very striking analogy between the 
manner in which the Moon partakes of and keeps the nature of 
one planet, till she is aspected by another, and the way in 
which a conductor charged with electric fluid retains it till it 
meets with another conductor. Heat, which was originally sup¬ 
posed to proceed from the Sun, is now thought, and with good 
reason, to be drawn from the earth by means of his influence ; 
and it is said by some philosophers that the electric fluid has a 
very strong analogy with the matter of light and heat.* This, 
however, is not of much consequence so far as the practical part 
of the science is concerned. The principal power which the 
Sun exerts on the atmosphere seems to be that of rarefying it 
by means of the heat which he produces from the earth. He 
cannot be the sole cause of the numerous changes which take 
place in the atmosphere, for at this rate the Weather would be 
always alike at the same timeof the year. Neither can the Moon be 
supposed to entirely produce these effects, for there are periods 
when the same kind of weather will continue with scarcely any 
intermission for more than a month. We must therefore search 
for other causes, and if we examine the effects of the other 
planets, particularly the superiors, we shall find that they have 
a very powerful influence on the atmosphere. The first, Saturn, 
seems to be of a very cold nature, producing storms and tempests; 
at the time of his conjunction with the Sun, he causes much bad 
weather, and if it should happen in summer, the effects are very 

* It is remarkable that galvanism, which is a modification of 
electricity, has a surprising power on animal bodies, may not the 
planets influence us by something of a similar nature 1 

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19 


remarkable. Instead of the heat, which we expect at that pe¬ 
riod of the year, the Weather is cold and rainy, very similar to 
that which generally occurs about February or November. If 
he is in square, or in opposition to Jupiter at the same time, he 
will eause very tempestuous weather, and their influences will 
be more remarkably brought into action whenever the Moon se¬ 
parates from a bad aspect of Saturn, and applies to a similar one 
of Jupiter. Jupiter when not vitiated by the influence of Saturn, 
gives fine wholesome Weather, highly favourable to vegetation. 
Mars-produces great heat, often attended with thunder storms 
in summer, and he not unfrequently causes rain when in sqqare, 
or opposition to the Moon. Venus also when aspected by Saturn 
or Mars, is often productive of wet, and it is said her conjunction 
with the Sun causes wet Weather at all times of the year; much 
however depends on her aspects with other planets. Indeed it 
must be carefully observed of every planet how it has been pre¬ 
viously aspected, as its nature is liable to be materially altered 
for some time. For instance, had Jupiter lately been in square 
to Saturn when the Sun came to the conjunction of Jupiter, 
according to the common rules, we might expect him to produce 
much warm Weather, whereas his nature would have been so 
much changed by the influence of Saturn, that he could do 
nothing of the kind. Mercury seems to have little influence of 
his own on the Weather, but when in aspect with Saturn and 
Mars, generally produces high winds. The Moon too has no 
determinate influence but by her rapid motion, she assumes the 
nature of every planet by which she is aspected in the short 
space of a month. By this means, she exerts a most powerful 
influence on the atmosphere, and calls into action the aspects of 
the different planets. 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

This will be seen by a close observer at the time of her dif¬ 
ferent configurations with the Sun, and at those periods by 
transmitting to him the nature of the planet by which she is 
last aspected, she produces a similar alteration in the air. This 
may be best exemplified by a reference to the planetary posi¬ 
tions at the time of the following occurrence:— 

October 5, 1794—A dreadful tempest commenced about eight 
o’clock in the evening, and continued with great violence for 
more than twenty hours, during which time a number of vessels, 
together with their crews, were totally lost, and the shipping 
all round the coast w as materially damaged. 


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In viewing the planets as above, the first thing which strikes 

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us is a conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in Sagittary, which has 
always been found in autumn to produce a tempestuous and 
windy air. In the next place, we observe an opposition of Saturn 
and Venus, and both of them in square to Herschel. It has 
been observed, that whenever Saturn and Herschel have been 
in evil aspect with the concurrence of other discordant configu¬ 
rations, that some tremendous commotion has ensued. It is 
also to be remarked, that Saturn was in sesquiquadrate to the 
Sun, which would naturally produce much cold, attended with 
wind, and it is probable that his mischievous influence was 
greatly increased by his position near the Pleiades. We must 
now examine the share which the Moon had in the production 
of this tempest. She was separating from a trine of Mars and 
Jupiter, and being impressed with their influence, passed to the 
sesquiquadrate of the Sun, who from the evil aspect of Saturn, 




ASRTOLOGEr’s POCKET COMPANION. 21 

strongly partook of his nature. This would occasion a consi¬ 
derable shock in the atmosphere, which was further increased 
by her application to the square of both Saturn and Venus, and 
afterwards to the opposition of Herschel. We would advise 
the learner to study these positions closely, and he will observe 
the very powerful effect of the Moon, in calling into action the 
influence of the other planets. At this point of the zodiac she 
was successively aspected by all the planets in the system in a 
space of time not much exceeding twelve hours, and the storm 
raged with unabated fury for above twenty. We cannot help 
observing the surprising ^effect which the sesquiquadrate and 
semiquartile have in this instance, and we have known it to 
produce remarkable changes on the atmosphere in other cases; 
we merely mention this, because we are aware that some Astro¬ 
logers are doubtful as to the efficacy of these aspects. In pur¬ 
suing his observations, we would advise the student to keep a 
diary of the most remarkable changes in the Weather; on one 
side of this he may register the rise and fall of the barometer and 
thermometer, &c. and on the other must be written the planetary 
aspects, and by the assistance of the rules which we shall give 
in a succeeding Number, he will soon find himself able to pre¬ 
dict with great certainty and correctness. 

(To be continued.) 

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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


TO THE EDITOR. 


g 1Bi July 15, 1824. 

It is with pleasure and satisfaction that I have just perused 
your Prospectus. You are indubitably right, a Work of this 
nature is loudly called for, and I hope the Public may be led by 
your endeavours to form a just opinion of the reality and utility 
of the long established, though now neglected science of Astro¬ 
logy. As to the puerile and maugre attempt lately made to treat 
on the science, it must be obvious that it is calculated only to 
bring that contempt on its authors, which we so justly bestow on 
all pretenders, and it would be well could a plan be devised to 
prevent the science itself suffering from the clumsy bungling of 
emperics, who do not offer the slightest evidence of a wish to sa¬ 
crifice at the shrine of reason. On the contrary, the Editor of 
the “ Straggling Astrologer” (stumbling Astrologer would 
have been more appropriate), talks in his 4th Number of “ spin¬ 
ning reason fine.” Now, Sir, I protest in the names of Placidus, 
Partridge, and every other writer of common sense, who has con¬ 
sidered the subject, that reason requires no spinning at all, but 
that the raw material makes the best garment, durable as the 
adamant, and indestructible as the Asbestos. Away with As¬ 
trology if it is to depend on fine drawn fictions ! I insist with 
the poet— 

1 V 

“ That truth never was indebted to a lie,” 


And I am satisfied the more Astrology is enquired into, the more 
will its importance be made out, and its character become esta¬ 
blished. 

I am not now about to advance any thing by way of extolling 


astrologer’s pocket companion^ 23 

any particular system of Astrology, or holding up as the acme of 
correctness any set of doctrines, but I will enter my caveat 
against the stupid notions that the Work above-named held forth 
on the subject of their Sandwich Majesties ; and before I finish, 

I will take the liberty of enquiring why, if the symbolical and 
genethliacal jumble of no-meaning which the Editor states, ena¬ 
bled him to ascertain such and such particulars of these person 
ages, could point out past causes—the same means could not 
enable him to predict future consequences? not a w r ord of the 
poor Queen’s death ! Though I dare say he will now serve upV 
course of causes garnished with all the nonsense of essential dig¬ 
nities, and endeavour to palm off on his Readers, that Jupiter 
and Mep et fry being combust, produced both their Majesty’s 
illness, and the latter planet being near the Dragon’s Tail, must 
have killed the female. I shall offer no farther comment on these 
absurdities, but conclude by wishing every success to the “ Spirit 
of Partridge,” and assuring you that I shall be always ready to 
offer you any assistance within the narrow scope of my ability, 
towards rendering the Work of important utility to the Public in 
general, and to every student in the science in particular. 

I remain, Sir, your humble Servant, 

TYRO. 

P.S. I have read an account of the King’s death also. Query, 
will the “ Straggling Astrologer” confess his ignorance of this 
coming event 1 


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V. 



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the spirit of partridge; or, 


10 CORRESPONDENTS. 


Our Correspondents are requested to be as early as possible in 
their Communications, that they may be inserted before Thurs¬ 
day. 

The Nativity of the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron, has been promised us, 
and will appear as soon as possible. 

Astronomical Tables from 1780, with the place of Hersehel, 
will appear in an early number. 

We return our sincere thanks to “ J. P.” for his remarks on a cu¬ 
rious Nativity, but owing to the press of matter, we are ob¬ 
liged to postpone it to a future Number, when he may depend 
on its being inserted. 

In answer to the query of “ T. C.” “ Is there any Book existing 
that can teach a person Astrology?” We reply, “Certainly 
there is!” And notwithstanding the assertion of the Strag¬ 
gler, our opinion is, that even a professor of the Science 
would cut but a poor figure in Astrology, without the aid of 
some of our old and valuable Authors. But as those works are 
so scarce, we recommend to T. C.’s attention the complete 
Astrological Dictionary, by J. Wilson, Esq. which comprises 
numerous opinions and remarks, and will be found a Key to 
most authors, particularly to the Primum Mobile, by Didacu* 
Placidus de Titus, Mathematician to his Serene Highness Leo¬ 
pold William, Archduke of Austria. 




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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR. 


TO THE EDITOR. 


Sir, 

I have read with considerable satisfaction, the First Number 
of your Scientific Miscellany; and wishing to advance the sub¬ 
lime science of the stars, by every means that may come within 
the latitude of my abilities, I have sent for your inspection the ho¬ 
roscope of the late celebrated poet, Lord Byron, together with a 
few remaks thereon, which I hope will meet the approbation of 
your numerous readers, as they are in strict consonance with the 
purest principles of Sidereal Philosophy. 

I remain Sir, 

AN ASTROLOGER. 

REMARKS ON THE NATIVITY OF LORD BYRON. 


There is a name that will survive 
Royalty’s monumental stone, 

And, long as history can give 
Deserv’d renown, must deathless live; 
Byron, it is thine own. 


The time of birth of this truly noble and most illustrious poet, 
wa3 given me by Mr. /. P., the celebrated artist, and amateur in 
Occult Science; who obtained it some years since, from an au¬ 
thentic source; so that there can be no doubt of its correctness. 
And certainly, its perfect agreement, with the principal known 
events of his life, exhibits a most remarkable proof of the truth 
of Astrology^ 




astrologer’s pocket companion. 


27 


The extraordinary mental qualifications which the native pos¬ 
sessed, are most amply demonstrated, by the positions and confi¬ 
gurations, of the Moon and Mercury. The latter planet, is the 
principal ruler of the intellectual faculties, and being free from 
the affliction of the solar rays, in the moveable and tropical sign, 
Capricorn; oriental, and approaching a sextile of the ascendant, 
by which means he may be said to be in a glorious position , con¬ 
tributes, according to the quadripartite of Ptolemy, to render the 
mind “ clever, sensible, capable of great learning, inventive, ex* 
pert, logical, studious of nature, speculative, of good genius, emu¬ 
lous, benevolent, skilful in argument, accurate in conjecture, and 
adapted to science and mystery.” * The page also adds, “ tract¬ 
able;” but Mercury being in opposition to the Moon and Mars, 
instead of tractability, gives an hatred of eontroul; inspires the 
native with the most lofty ideas, and aspiring sentiments; gives 
him originality, and eccentricity, with a firmness of mind almost 
inclining to obstinacy; and which made this illustrious native 
such an enemy to the track of custom, for which he was so re¬ 
markable, and which contributed to form that lofty genius (which 
alike, rode in the whirlwind, or sparkled in the sun-beam.) 

The disposition and rational faculties, are no less plainly de¬ 
scribed by the position of the Moon, in conjunction with Mars; 
likewise, in a tropical and cardinal sign; wherein she is powerful. 
While Mars is nearly in exact mundane trine to the ascendant. 
These positions laid the foundation from the moment of his ex¬ 
istence, of that peculiarity of disposition; that keen and cutting 
vein of satire; that caustic and pointed wit; that quick, enterpris¬ 
ing and daring mind; that extraordinary development of energies, 

* Vide Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, page 167. (Edition of 1822, 
by J. M. Ashraand.) 

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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


passions and eccentricities; and that exquisite taste, talent and 
sensibility, for which he stood unrivalled. But at the same time, 
that this position of the heavenly bodies gave sentiments of the 
most perfect heroism and invincible courage; it is to be regretted, 
that it inclined the temper to be both hasty and irrascibleronthe 
slightest occasion, and to increase the violence of the most pow¬ 
erful passions ! 

Mercury, it will be observed, is alone, in the sign of the winter 
tropic, and in semiquartile to Saturn ; whicV "nay account for the 
solitary gloom that so frequently overshadowed his path through 
life; as well as for that melancholy sadness, which tinged some 
of his brightest ideas, and which actually seems ' have embitter¬ 
ed the latest hours of his existence ! 

It will be evidently remarked, as curious, and worthy of atten¬ 
tion, that neither Mercury nor the Moon, have any perfect aspect 
to Jupiter (for although Mercury is approaching a biquintile of 
that planet, the aspect is too far off to operate decidedly.) May 
not this account for the detestation in which the illustrious na¬ 
tive held the religious cant of the day, and which brought upon 
him much obloquy from a depraved and hireling Aristocracy ? It 
will be remembered by the student, that in Astrology, Jupiter 
always has signification of religious and clerical matters. 

Thus it will be observed, from a combined view of the above 
testimonies, judged according to the established and experimen¬ 
tal rules of the Astral Science, that the nativity plainly demon¬ 
strates the illustrious subject thereof, to have been endowed w ith 
the most extraordinary and stupendous intellects, with a genius 
and imagination, as far surpassing the common run of poets, as 
the refulgent rays of the meridian Sun surpasses the feeble 
twinkling of the smallest star that arises in our horizon ! Neither 
is it a trifling proof of the truth of Astrology, that his geni- 
ture should so plainly demonstrate that he was “ born a poet.” 


OPUS REFORMATUM; 

OR, A 

TREATISE OF ASTROLOGY: 

In which the Common Errors of that Art, are Modestly Exposed 
and Rejected. 

With an ESSAY towards the Reviving the True and Ancient 
Method laid down for our Direction by the GREAT PTO¬ 
LEMY ; and more agreeable to the Principles of Motion and 
Nature, than that commonly Practised and Taught. 

IN TWO PARTS, 

By JOHN PARTRIDGE, 

Physician to her Majesty, Queen Mary II., and Student in 
Astrology. 

Post Nubila Phoebus . 

L OND ON: —MDCXCIII. 


EXTRACT I. 
(VERBATIM.) 


I shall not enter into an argumental contest about the art of 
Astrology in general, but leave that work for the more florid pens 
to discuss. Neither will I at this time undertake to demonstrate 
the motion by which Directions are made, nor the principles of 
this Art,* nor yet those things that we call causes Astrological, 
they being not only intended, but also more proper for another 

* But this part of the Science will be fully taught and fami¬ 
liarly explained in the course of this Work.— Ed. 




30 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGEJ OR, 


treatise; I having designed here to shew some of those visible (I 
had almost said palpable) absurdities, that some of the greatest 
professors, not only of our own Nation, but others also, may justly 
be accused of; N° w ? if Directions, those things that we call cause* 
of Accidents in the life of Man, do really produce an effect at any 
time, then must they certainly at all times give something propor¬ 
tional to their natures, and the adjuncts that do attend them; or 
else some rules of exceptions laid down, by which we may judge 
and distinguish when they will or when they will not answer the 
Rules given us by our Authors on the effects of Directions. I 
know very well, that the same Direction shall not have the same 
effect at one time that it hath at another; and I think I know the 
reason why; but yet there shrill be an effect, and such a one too, 
as shall be agreeable to its own nature, and part of Heaven* 
And to this purpose Guido Bonatifs , speaking of things of this 
kind, says, Causa enim perfect a, perfectym inducit Effectum : 
Which is indeed really true, not only in this of Astrology, but also 
in all other Philosophick matters in nature. For if we own a thing 
to be the real cause of any other thing, at one time, when per¬ 
haps it shall be twenty times afterwards without the least shew 
of an effect, is to tell the world in plain terms, that we neither 
know nor understand what we mean ourselves; or else by reason 
of our ignorance we are not able to distinguish between a cause 
and an effect, according to our own principles in that Art which 
we pretend to; yyhich gives our adversaries just cause to say, 
Aut eqim Astrology Inlelligunt, ayt si Intelligunt graviter 
Enxayt . 

For I am perswaded, if the Astrologers, or such as are so es¬ 
teemed, were asked, how many of those Directions, that they call 
mortal ones, have in divers nativities passed over without 
giving death , or any disease to the injury of the body; they 


ASTROLOGER’S TOCKET COMPANION. 


31 


•would be apt to confess, as many of them have missed as hit, and 
yet they are very well satisfied with their method, and go on as 
confidently, as if they had never found either error or disappoint¬ 
ment, as you shall find that further examined a.ndproved through¬ 
out this treatise; for I have made choice of this subject, as the 
properest I could pitch upon to bring me readily to the point in 
hand, that is, to expose these fooleries and absurdities , which l 
find not in one, but most of our authors: Nay, our enemies too 
are not without their absurdities , as we may see by Heminga , 
in the Nativity of Pope Paul the Third, page 92, wherein 
among the rest of his objections, he tells us of some reputed dan¬ 
gerous Directions that the Pope had passed, and yet did no in¬ 
jury to his Life; and one of these he mentions, was the Ascen¬ 
dant to his own Square , A very learned objection ! And I 
think no ways likely to give any thing good or bad , and there¬ 
fore much less Death; but I do not so much blame Heminga , 
(tho’ a very learned man and well read in the art of Astrology) 
as I do Ceresarius of Mantua , who wrote the predictions that 
Heminga carps at, in which he hath these words, D, V, R, gra- 
viter se habebit cum magno Vila; discrimine que dies erit 4 vel 
5 Maii, 1549, ex directione Horoscopi ad suum trinum qui pro 
quadrato habetur , eo quia est in signis brevium Ascensionum . 
I must needs say, it is a very odd sort of Astrology to my ears, 
to hear them talk of the Ascendant to its own Trine, and this by 
so eminent a man as Paris Ceresarius was; and what is yet 
more strange, that he should from hence predict danger of 
Death. And besides, we find the same thing printed in Cardan 
about this Pope’s Nativity, where he takes some little notice 
about those Directions, but says not one word about the Ascen¬ 
dant to his own Trine , which makes me doubt whether he did 
not countenance that opinion also. Now, pray let me ask any 


32 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

man what can be expected from such like directions as these 1 
and whether the textiles , Squares and Trines of the Dragons 
Hedd and Tail , are not as proper and effectual as these are ? 
For tho’ I do allow that there are such points, as Sextiles y 
Squares , and Trines to the Ascendants' Midheaven , &c. taken in 
Mundo, or at least wise in their imaginary way in the Zodiack; 
yet what is there to irradiate those points or parts of the Hea¬ 
vens? for the Ascendant and Tenth can emit no rays , and there¬ 
fore can give no power to the other parts of Heaven to become 
serviceable after this manner as they pretend to; therefore I say, 
if these points were ever fit for the use here pretended, they 
must be ever so in some measure, more or less; but in all my 
Practice I could never find it; and I am sure there is no ground 
nor reason to believe it, let them say what they will; yet by 
these and such like ways, young Students are seduced and led 
by the nose with those Tongs of authority. And therefore let 
this serve for an instance in general, that there are methods 
used, which are both vain and improbable; for every 
cause must have its effect , or else it is no cause. 

To these I might add those directions that are so often made 
use of in all Nativities, and with as little success as these are, as 
will appear by what follows, so far as it concerns this Nativity I 
am about to handle. For if we allow those reasons there alledged 
to be true, then shall we find abundance of Nativities to be above 
the order of Nature, and reach of the Stars, or else the Stars 
have done their duty negligently and by halves, when we shall 
find so many people have escaped the Ascendant to the Squares 
and Oppositions of Saturn and Mars , and this poor Gentleman 
fall by it, which is indeed a perfect piece of Impossibility, if the 
rules of the best Masters of it are true, and the Experience of 
those that have tried them, the same. Now to satisfy you yek 


ASTROLOGER’S POCKET COMPANION. 33 ' 

further, that their Directions for Sickness, Death, and other Acci¬ 
dents, are generally vain and impertinent, and that there are 
very few, if any of them, that are really settled in their own judg¬ 
ment and opinion, how to determine those things according to 
Rule and regular method; do but carry a Nativity of any person 
that is dead, to any of them, and desire the Reason of his Death 
Astrologically, they shall immediately give you some sham story 
or other, either the Moon to the square or opposition of Jupiter 
and Venus Rulers of the Eighth House, the Ascendant to the 
Dragons-Tail , or to the Antiscion of some ill natured Star; nay, 
they shall assign you some Direction to the Ascendant to Kill, 
when the Sun and Moon are both in Aphetical places; or else Di¬ 
rections to the Sun or Moon, placed in the Third, Fourth, or 
Fifth Houses under the Earth, which are indeed neither agreea¬ 
ble to Reason , Nature, nor their own Rules published from their 
own hands: For do they not tell you long Stories of the Sub, 
Moon, and Ascendant, (and some of the Midheaven) being givers 
of Life? And did you ever know them keep to the use of them, 
unless it was to serve a turn when nothing else would do?— 
Whfch is plain to me, that they do not understand their own 
Rules, or else they do not believe them. To my knowledge, 
there was (as in the case of the Protector) a Figure of Charles 
the Second’s Birth generally agreed on, and believed by all those 
that professed Astrology, and by which a certain person did pre¬ 
dict his Death in 1685, and by which Figure they all said he 
would live to seventy Years of Age; but since his Death, 
you may go to twenty of them, and perhaps every one of them 
shew you a different Figure, and assign different causes for his 
Death ; they being as much confounded about that Prince’s Na¬ 
tivity and Death, as ever they were about the Protectors. Of 
these, and such like stories as these are, I could give you a great 
number, which will serve for no other use but to shew you, that 


34 TH$ SPIRIT OF ^^t^ipgr; or, 

Ignorance becomes Powerful, when it grows Popular and Ge¬ 
neral, at which time it is usually guarded by Impudence and 
Error, and by their assistance it commonly takes Truth by the 
beard. I shall now conclude these things with this Axiom. 

That every Cause must have a certain Effect; apd by that 
Rule , any Direction^ that hath Power to kill at one time, hath at 
another, or else a good substantial Rule to shew reason^ to the 


contrary. 


(To be continued.) 


- °. - 

AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY. 

According to our promise, we shall now give our Readers 
a short, but comprehensive Introduction to Astronomy. 

Astronomy is that science which teaches the knowledge of the 
heayenjy bodies, with respect to their Magnitudes, Distances, 
Motions, &c. thence arising. That this science is very ancient 
is not to be doubted, since it was known to the Chaldeans two 
thousand years before Babylon was taken by Alexander the 
Great. The clearness of their hemisphere first prompted them to 
make observations, and continual practice improved them. From, 
the Chaldeans the science travelled into Egypt; Pythagoras, a 
Greek philosopher, who flourished about 500 years before Christ, 
went thither to be instructed therein, where he soon gained a 
knowledge of the true system of the universe, which, on his re¬ 
turn, he taught in Greece and Italy, and from whose name it 
gained the appellation of the Pythagorean System • In this 
system the Sun is supposed to be at rest in the centre of the pla¬ 
netary system, and the Earth to be carried round him annually, 
in an orbit betwreen Venus and Mars. As tips is the most an¬ 
cient system of any, so it is embraced by the most skilful Astro¬ 
nomers, and has the concurrent testimony of the best observa¬ 
tions to support it. Indeed it is found impossible to give a con¬ 
sistent account of the heavenly motions in any other way. This* 




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•system, however, was so extremely opposite to all the prejudices 
of sense and opinion at that time, that it never made any great 
progress, or was it ever widely spread in the ancient world. And 
after the death of Pythagoras, the science fell into great neglect, 
and almost all the Babylonian observations were lost, and gave 
way to the prevailing false opinion of Ptolemy, which supposes 
the Earth to be at rest, and in the centre, and the heavens to 
revolve about it from East to West in 24 hours, (as this seemed 
to correspond with the sensible appearances of the celestial mo¬ 
tions) carrying with them the Sun, Planets, and fixed Stars, each 
in their respective spheres. Next above the Earth is the Moon, 
then the planet Mercury, next Venus, and then the Sun; next 
above him Mars, then Jupiter, and next Saturn; over which are 
placed the two chrystalline spheres, and lastly the Primum Mobile, 
supposed to be the first heaven, and that which gives motion to 
all the spheres. But this system is now very justly exploded, 
there being not even a demonstration wanting to confute it. 

The Saracens on conquering Egypt, brought it into Africa and 
Spain. By this means the science was restored to Europe, arid 
began to improve very considerably. Alphonso, King of Castile, 
enriched it with the Alphonsine Tables, the composing of 
which cost 400,000 crowns. In this state was Astronomy, when 
Copernicus, a native of Poland, a bold and original genius, 
adopted the Pythagorean System, and published it to the world 
about the year 1530. This doctrine had been «o long in obscu¬ 
rity, that the restorer of it was considered as the inventor, and 
was therefore called the Copernican System, Europe, however, 
was still immersed in ignorance, and the general ideas of the 5 
world were not able to keep pace with those of a refined philo¬ 
sophy. This occasioned Copernicus to have few abettors, but 
many opponents. Indeed; had he not have died soon after the 


36 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

printing of his Astronomical works, it is likely he would have bee* 
persecuted by the stupid fanatics of the times, (as poor Galileo 
was afterwards for adopting and defending the same,) who looked 
upon it as a most dangerous heresy, for maintaining the motion of 
the Earth ab: ut the Sun, as being contrary to Scriptural doc¬ 
trine, not considering that the Scripture ought to be the rule of 
our faith, and not the standard of physical truths. Tycho Brahe, 
a nobleman of Denmark, sensible of the defects of the Ptolemaic 
System, but unwilling to acknowledge the motion of the Earth, 
endeavoured to establish a system of his own, but as this proved 
to be still more absurd than that of Ptolemy it was soon exploded, 
and gave way to the Copernican System, which has been so de¬ 
monstrably confirmed and established by the great Sir Isaac 
Newton, that it is never likely to meet with any plausible oppo¬ 
sition in future. 

This system consists of the Sun, with eleven Primary Planets, 
and eighteen Satellites, Moons, or Secondary Planets; the Earth 
has owe Satellite, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Herschel six. 
Also several Comets, of which the number is not yet known. 
The fixed stars are to be considered as at an immense distance, 
and beyond the bounds of our system. I shall now begin to 
treat of the Sun, and then proceed regularly from the Planet 
whose orbit is next to him, to that which is most remote from 
this luminary of our system. 

OF THE SUN. 

The Sun (is that prodigious large body of heat and light, and 
whose presence constitutes day,) is placed near the common 
eentre, or rather in the lower focus of the orbits of all the Pla¬ 
nets and Comets; he turns on his axis in 25 days, 14 hours 
4 min. as is found by observing the spots on his surface, which. 


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first make their appearance on the eastern extremity, and then by 
degrees comes forward towards the middle, and so pass on till 
they reach the western edge, and then disappear. From which 
observation, the time he takes to revolve on his axis is thus 
found—the mean motion of the Earth in 27 days, 12 hours, 20 
min. is 27 deg. 7 min. 8 sec., hence 360 deg added to 27 deg. 
7 min. 8 sec. equal to 387 deg. 7 min. 8 sec. Therefore, by the 
rule of proportion, as 387 deg. 7 min. 8 sec. is to 27 days,12hours, 
20 min., so is 360 deg. equal to 25 days, 14 hours, 4 min. the time 
of rotation as was stated above. The Sun’s apparent diameter 
being sensibly shorter in December than in June, as is agreetf 
from a number of observations, the Sun must be proportionably 
nearer to the Earth in winter than in summer, for the apparent 
magnitude of a distant body diminishes as the distance increases, 
this is also confirmed by the Earth’s moving swifter in December 
than it doth in June. For since, as Sir Isaac Newton hath de¬ 
monstrated by a line drawn to the Sun, the Earth always de¬ 
scribes equal areas in equal times, consequently whenever it 
moves swifter, it must needs be nearer the Sun. And for this 
reason, there are about eight days more from the Sun’s vernal 
equinox to the autumnal, than from the autumnal to the vernal. 
The mean apparent diameter of the Sun is stated to be 32 min. 
2 sec.; hence taking the distance of the Sun from the Earth to 
be 95 millions of miles, as before stated in this Work, its real 
diameter, will be found to be 886,149 miles; and as the magni¬ 
tudes of all spherical bodies are to each other as the cubes of 
their diameters, the magnitude of the Sun will be 1,377,613 
times that of the Earth; the diameter of the Earth being only 7964 
miles, the diameter of the Sun is above one hundred and eleven 
times the diameter of the Earth. As to the substance of which 
the Sun is composed, many conjectures have been formed; but 


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there appears little in any of them to entitle it to a superiority 
over the other. In one particular they all agree, that is, that it is 
either composed of, or surrounded by some very powerful heating 
substance, but what that substance is, or how it is maintained, 
they are all at a loss to determine. But it is now time to leave 
the Sun, and make our observations on the Planets which sur¬ 
round him. 

(To be continued.) 

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CONFIGURATIONS, OR ASPECTS. 


These are certain positions in which the planets act upon, and 
affect each other. They are of two kinds, Zodiacal and Mun¬ 
dane; Zodiacal aspects are those measured by the degrees of the 
ecliptic—Mundane are’calculated by the semi-arcs of the planets. 
By semiarc, is meant half the time which elapses from a star’s 
rising to its setting, and vice versa. To give a familiar example— 
if the day be sixteen hours long, the semidiurnal-arc will be eight 
hour*.; that is, the Sun is eight hours from the time of his rising 
at four o’clock, to the time of his coming to the meridian at 
twelve; now it is evident, if he be sixteen hours above the earth, 
he can be but eight beneath it; consequently, his seminocturnal- 
arcwill.be four hours; the semidiurnal or nocturnal-arc of any 
planet, is the same as that of the Sun in the same point; this will 
be fully explained hereafter. 

We shall now proceed to treat of the effects of the different 
Aspectsi* 

CONJUNCTION. 

The Conjunction is when two planets are in the same degree 





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and mippte of a.sign; this is called a partite configuration ; but 
their effect does not wholly cease till they are ten degrees distant 
from each other, and this is, termed a plalick configuration ; the 
same holds good of every other aspect as w ell as the conjunction, 
apd extends to latitude as well as longitude. It is laid down as, 
a general rule that applications are more powerful than separa^ 
tions. This no doubt is the case in horary questions, where, if 
• the significators are separating from any aspect, it is a symbol that 
all probability of the event’s occurring is passing aw;ay; but in 
nativities, where real influence is to be taken into consideration, 
it seems more reasonable to suppose that \yhen the aspect has. 
actually been formed, and the planets still continue in platick fa¬ 
miliarity, that they will be more strongly impressed with each 
others influence, than when they are only proceeding to such a 
configuration; we find the heat of the Sun more powerful about 
two or three o’clock in the afternoon, when he has passed the 
meridian, than at twelve, the time he is actually on it. Conjunc¬ 
tions are evil with the malefic planets, and good with the benign. 

SEMISEXTILE. 

The Semisex,tile,or twelfth part of a circle, is a distance of thirty 
degrees ip, the zodiac, or one-third of a semir-arc in the world, and 
is supposed to be slightly beneficial. 

SEMIQUADRATE. 

The Semiquadrate, or Semiquartile, the eighth part of a, circle, 
is a distance of forty-five degrees in the ecliptic, or ope-half & 
semi-arc in the world. This aspect, though pot allowed by Pla- 
cidus, there is every reason to suppose is very evil, and has been 
thought by some good judges to equal, if not exceed, the square, 
in malevolence. 

SEXTILE. 

The Sextile, or the sixth part of a circle, contains sixty degrees 


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in the zodiac, or two-thirds of a semi-arc in the world, and is sup¬ 
posed to be inferior only to the Trine in its benign influence. 
QUINTILE. 

The Quintile, or fifth part of a oircle, comprehends seventy-two 
degrees in the ecliptic, and a sextile and one-fifth in the world. 
Placidus admits this a3 one of the good aspects, but there is little 
reason to suppose it has much efficacy. 

SQUARE. 

The Square, which is the fourth part of a circle, is a very pow¬ 
erful evil aspect, and comprises ninety degrees in the zodiac, and 
a semi-arc in mundo. 

TRINE. 

The Trine, or third part of a circle, is the best aspect of the 
whole, and is a distance of one hundred and twenty degrees in 
the zodiac, or a semi-arc, and one-third in the world. 

SESQUIQUADRATE. 

The Sesquiquadrate, is the opposite point of the Semiqnartile, 
and like that, is a discordant aspect; experience shows the ef¬ 
fects of both to be very powerful, and their influence may be par¬ 
ticularly observed on the weather, for changes more frequently 
take place at the time of the Moon’s Sesquiquadrates and Semi- 
quartiles with the Sun, than even her Squares and Oppositions. 
It contains one hundred and thirty-five degrees in the zodiac, and 
is a semi-arc and a half in the world. 

BIQUINTILE. 

The Biquintile, or double quintile, is four-fifths of the whole di¬ 
urnal or nocturnal-arc, or one hundred and forty-four degrees of 
the ecliptic; it, like the quintile, is supposed to be good, and as 
such, is admitted by Placidus, but experience does not seem alto¬ 
gether to confirm this opinion. 

QUADRASEXTILE. 

The Quadrasextile, or Quincunx, is the opposite point of the 
temisextile; it is a distance of five signs, or one hundred and fifty 


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degrees in the ecliptic; in the world it is five-sixths of the whole 
arc; it is not generally considered as an aspect, but those who 
maintain that opinion, hold it to be benefical. 

OPPOSITION. 

The Opposition is when two planets are one hundred and 
eighty degrees distant in the zodiac, or the whole diurnal, or 
nocturnal arc, in the world. This is the worst aspect of the 
whole, and it signifies the most perfect disagreement. We must 
be cautious, however, of adhering too closely to the old opinions 
of these aspects; it has always been customary to consider the 
trine as more powerful than the sextile, and the opposition than 
the square; but when we reflect on the immense, and to us, almost 
inconceivable distance, which must be between two such planets 
as Saturn and Jupiter, or Saturn and Herschel, it seems more rea¬ 
sonable to reverse this maxim. The next aspect which we come 
to, is the Antiscion, zodiacal parrallel or parallel of declination; 
that is, any two points of the ecliptic, equidistant from the first 
points of Aries and Libra (which have no declination) are in zo¬ 
diacal parallel. A star in five degrees of Leo, has the same de¬ 
clination as another in twenty-five degrees of Taurus, and these 
would be in zodiacal parallel to two others in twenty-five de¬ 
grees of Scorpio, and five degrees of Aquarius. This configura¬ 
tion has precisely the same effect a3 a conjunction, and may al¬ 
ways be considered as such; it is to be observed, that all antisci¬ 
ons must be taken with latitudes, and they can only be found by 
referring to the tables of declination. 

PARALLELS. 

Mundane Parallels are equal distances from the angles of a fi¬ 
gure, and are, in their effects, equivalent to a conjunction. A star 
on the cusp of the twelfth, is in mundane parallel to another on 
the cusp of the eighth, as they would then be equidistant from the 
tenth. There can scarcely be a stronger proof of the fallacy of 
supposing a succedent house to be stronger than a cadent one,— 


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Placidus says, speaking of parallels in general—•“ Several re¬ 
semblances are found between the mundane parallels and those 
of the Primum Mobile. The efficacy in both , consists in the pa 
rity or equal power , and powers of the active virtue.” In con¬ 
formity to Ptolemy, he maintained that a succedent house was 
stronger than a cadent, but in his mundane parallel, he is obliged 
to admit them of equal power. In our practice we have found 
ourselves warranted in placing the greatest dependance on pa¬ 
rallels from the tenth and fourth houses, because they are then of 
equal power; but those from the first and seventh houses have uni¬ 
formly failed; the reason appears to be that from one star being 
beneath the earth, and the other above it, they have not that 
equal power of which Placidus speaks, and consequently can pro¬ 
duce no effect. 


TO THE EDITOR . 

Sir, 

In answer to the Query of Orion, whether all Persons who 
married between the Months of July and October , 1820, will 
be Unfortunate during the next Eighteen Months ? as stated 
in the “ Straggler.” I answer, certainly not , unless they 
have some malevolent Directions operating! The assertions 
of the Writer in that article, are totally false. Neither 1820 
nor 1821, were remarkable for producing unlucky marriages ! 
No real artist, would have the temerity to predict so many 
evils from mere ingresses and transits! But I have disco¬ 
vered the party from whence it proceeded, and beg to remind 
him of the old adage, “ Let every Cobler stick to his Last.” 
—Verbum Sat. R. C. S. 



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43 


ASTROLOGY THEOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED. 


In regarding the science of Astrology Theologically, we wish 
to draw the attention of our readers to a few objections that it has 
been customary to make to it, with a view of shewing how ill- 
founded they have ever been, and how directly opposed it is to 
any thing like Atheism, or independence on a Supreme Being. 

The hostility of the church to this science, is founded on the 
same ignorance of its principles, that is generally observable, to 
which may be added a fear of its consequences, that blinds its 
professors and renders them incapable of forming a cool judg¬ 
ment, at the same time they become conspicuously inconsequent 
and ridiculous in argument The clerical opponents of Astrology 
first picture a spectre in their own imaginations, dress it in all the 
horrors of the grave-clothes, place a lanthern in one hand and a 
pitch fork in the other, and then call upon those who are alike 
timid and ignorant with themselves to beware of the devil!— 
Whereas-, on inspecting with the eye of reason the cause of all 
this alarm, it turns out to be a pole, a turnip, and a table cloth. 

To pursue this frightful metaphor no farther, let us enquire 
what was the probable, original cause, and what is the presen 
actual cause, why the clergy anathematise Astrology. 

In the middle ages it happened that those who pursued the 
(study of this science, were chiefly physicians, as they styled them¬ 
selves. They, by the way, were as ignorant as the country drug¬ 
gists of the present times generally are, and, as it was then ne¬ 
cessary for them to be acquainted with sidereal subjects before 
they were eligible to the practice of their profession, it fell out 
that their studies that way, being forced, were merely superficial. 
And this being the case, we may readily suppose that they chose 



44 THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

that species of Astrology which, being least abstruse, gave them 
the least trouble. This was that which, with some slight altera¬ 
tion, is meant in the present day by Popular Astrology. It is a 
heterogeneous jumble of the two great branches of the science, 
Genethliacal*, or that wherein the planets must be regarded as 
causes of events, and Horaryt, or that wherein the planets can 
only be looked upon as symbols of events. The doctrine of es¬ 
sential dignities which we shall by and bye shew can have no 
effect in nativities, properly belongs to the latter branch; but be¬ 
cause it was the fashion to adhere to it in both, it was adhered 
to, as the custom of decrying Astrology altogether is now. A»d 
as no one called the fashion in question, but all the world fol¬ 
lowed the mistaken path of those who had gone before, these sa¬ 
pient Doctors frequently found themselves at fault. Still they 
persevered, and sometimes, (as witness some part of Lilly’s 
works,) fell upon the truth. This, though it seldom occurred at 
all, was on some occasions unfavourable to the church. The 
clergy, in their anger at the predictions of the downfal of the es¬ 
tablishment, made war on Astrology in the persons of its ignorant 
professors, brought forward their frequent failures as proofs of 
their wickedness, cried them down, not very consistently, as 
dealers in witchcraft and with the devil, and procured laws 
through the bigotry of a puritanical legislature, which silenced 
their victims by immuring them in a dungeon. 

For proof of these assertions, we refer to the lives of Lilly, and 
the leading Astrologers of his day; when the state religion was a 
ball tossed from one party to a.{ (ther. And thus it was that, 
opposed by an adversary of such extensive influence as the clergy 

* From Genesis, a beginning; the doctrine of Nativities. 

t From Hora, an hour; the doctrine of Horary questions. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 45 

at all times are, the science of Astrology came into disrepute; 
its professors no longer dared to speak out in their predictions, 
and as it was easy to cloak ignorance under the unmeaning hie¬ 
roglyphics that were then adopted, the science fell altogether into 
the hands of ignorant pretenders. One remarkable remnant of 
the degrading pretensions that followed may still be seen in a 
certain almanack that has become proverbial for making predic¬ 
tions by hieroglyphics, which may be made to fit to any interpre¬ 
tation, and by foretelling atmospherical changes, “ more or less,” 
and “ the day before and day after,” &c. &c. 

Having thus traced some of the circumstances attending the 
original enmity of the clergy to the practice of astral prediction, 
we will endeavour to show what was the substance of their ob¬ 
jections ; and in so doing it would be some excuse for them if the 
interests of morality or revelation were obviously effected by the 
practice of Astrology, or if they, the clergy, could be supposed to 
have even believed this to be the case. But this is the reverse 
of what was the fact, for none endeavoured to uphold religion 
more by precept or example, than did Lilly himself, who was ne¬ 
vertheless sufficiently persecuted by the puritans. 

The real cause that actuated the church in opposing Astrology 
was, that it teaches that “ good and evil are produced by the 
planets;” and as this appears at first blush to supersede the ne¬ 
cessity of any other first-cause or Deity to rule the world, it was 
supposed that if men believed in the former, they must disbelieve 
the latter; and thus would fall to the ground all the superstruc¬ 
ture that religion has erected on the foundation of such a belief; 
and what is worse, all the good things that are stored within 
that superstructure, of which good things the church has always 
been the kind, generous and disinterested protector. 

It was, and still is, by means of this mistaken idea, that Astro- 


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logy is concluded to be inimical to the church; whereas, the 
truth is, not only does the study of it lead to the admiration of 
the God of nature, but the practice of it necessarily leads to the 
admiration of that God. It is true that the Astrologer believes 
that good and evil are produced by the planets, but not as first- 
causes, not as rational beings, not as intelligent masses of mat¬ 
ter, nor good and evil genii, whose delight it is to play with the 
feelings of us poor mortals—no ! but as means only, whereby the 
great first-cause, the all glorious Deity, carries his adorable will 
into effect. 

It has been justly said in objection to Astrology, that every 
thing that occurs on earth occurs by the will of providence; this 
is perfectly true; but the inference—that therefore the planets can 
have nothing to do with it, is as perfectly false; the planets are 
the means which are adopted to carry the will of providence into 
never-failing effect; and this is as easy of belief as that where 
providence wills that we should have rain, the agency of a cloud 
and the Sun’s rays, are made use of to effect that which it wills. 

The common place objections arising from the friends of reli¬ 
gion, are such as these:—Is it not wicked to attempt to look into 
futurity ? Is it not impious and presumptuous to usurp the privi¬ 
lege of the Almighty ? Are not the secrets of fate hid from mor¬ 
tal eyes, because to know them, would make men still more wick¬ 
ed than they are, seeing that they would put off the work of re¬ 
pentance until their latter end approached? There are other 
objections that we have heard, such as, “ The idea of coming 
misfortunes would make men miserable, &c.;” but as these do 
not properly belong to this head, we shall confine ourselves to a 
reply to the above questions. 

As to the first, of its being wicked to attempt to look into futu¬ 
rity, we think that it in some measure depends on the motive with 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 47 

which it is done. If a man pry into the secret result of any 
matter, with a view to benefit himself by injuring his neighbour, 
there can be no doubt the act is sinful, because the motive which 
gave birth to it is so; and, on the other hand, if the motive is 
good, then the act will be praiseworthy; but the mere act 
itself, if unaccompanied by any motive, is certainly, when ab¬ 
stractedly considered, perfectly indifferent, and therefore assu¬ 
redly not wicked. It can only be said to be wicked under the 
notion that it is forbidden by the Scriptures; but this is not the 
case as regards Astrology. The Scriptures certainly forbid the 
having recourse to witches and such as deal in charms, &c. but 
we do not think this applies to the act of looking into futurity; it 
rather means to avoid the belief, so derogatory to the power and 
goodness of the Almighty, of such abominations as that of the 
devil having an influence over the life and health of human 
beings, through the agency of these creatures: a belief still 
common among eastern nations, and, we blush to write, not 
wholly eradicated in our own, as some late trials have evinced. 

But this has nothing at all to do with Astrology; which, if we 
were called on to define it, we should say is, a science which 
teaches to foretell events by the positions of the heavenly bodies. 
Now, there is nothing inconsistent with morality in this; and 
certainly the Scriptures do not forbid it, either directly or by ana¬ 
logy. The means , we say, are not immoral; that the end is not, 
we shall hereafter make evident. It is not the means then that 
can be shewn to be wicked, i.e. they are not spoken against in 
Scripture, and they are not^er se immoral, inasmuch as a study of 
the heavenly bodies, their nature, and their motions, tends to the 
glory of their Creator, rather than otherwise ; and thus have we 
replied to the first question; we shall answer the second in our 
next, 


(To be continued.) 


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DIRECTIONS FOR ERECTING A FIGURE OF THE HEAVENS, 
AND PLACING THE PLANETS IN THE HOROSCOPE. 



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Although this at first sight may appear to be a task of some difficulty to 
the Tyro’s in Astrology, yet, by paying a little attention to our Rules, 
and with the aid of an Ephemeris, and a Table of Houses,* may, in a very 
short time, become master of this very essential part of the Science. 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


In the first place you must draw a Figure as above, which is 
called a Figure of the twelve Houses of Heaven. 

Upon the lines of the foregoing Scheme, you find the Figures 
1. 2, 3, &c. with the words Angles, Succedent, and Cadent, 
which signifies that that House marked No. 1, is the first House, 
Ascendant or East Angle, and is that point of the Heavens as¬ 
cending at the time of a Nativity, Horary Question, or any thing 
which requires a Figure being erected ; that space marked No. 2, 
with the word Succedent, signifies that it is the second House, 
and is called Succedent, because it succeeds, or follows an 
Angle; 5th, 8th, and 11th, are termed the same, and a Planet 
posited in any one of them, is esteemed by some to be nearly as 
strong as if in an Angle. That marked No. 3, is the third 
House, and called Cadent, as is the Cth, 9th* and 12tli, and a 
Planet placed in any one of them is commonly reckoned very 
weak.* The 4th House, Imum Celi, or North Angle, is the 
lowest point of depression in the Heavens at the erection of a 
Figure, being opposite to the mid-heaven, The 7th House, is 
termed the Descendant, or West Angle, and is that point of the 
Heavens setting at the time of the Figure being erected. The 
10th House, is called the Medium Celi, Mid-heaven, or South 
Angle, and is that point that culminates (or comes to the meri¬ 
dian) in any Figure. Having thus spoken of the names of the 
12 Houses, the next step to be attained is to know' how to erect 
a Figure of the Heavens for any Nativity or Question, and how r 
to dispose of the Planets and Stars in the Horoscope, so as to 
represent the exact situation of the Heavens at any hour or mi¬ 
nute required. 

* This may be the case in Horary Questions, but not in Na? 
tivities ; a distinction which ought always to be made. 


ASTROLOGER’S POCKET COMPANION. 51 

Authors differ in opinion with respect to the division of the 
circle of the Heavens; but the method of dividing them by 
oblique ascension as recommended by Ptolemy, and followed by 
Placidus, is the most rational and correct way, and is now uni¬ 
versally adopted. 

The best wuy is to erect a Figure by the Globe, but those 
who are not in the possession of one, or who do not understand 
its use, we shall teach them the usual method of doing it, by a 
Table of Houses, calculated for the latitude of London. 

In erecting a Figure of the Heavens for any Nativity, Ques¬ 
tion, &c. those three following things are to be attended to:— 
First, the Year, Month, Day of the Week, and the Hour and 
Minute of that Day, either at the Birth of a Child, or a Question 
propounded. Secondly, to observe in an Ephemeris of the same 
Year and Day, the true place of the Sun, Moon, and Planets 
(which are given for Noon that day); and Thirdly, note what 
Hour and Minute in the Table of Houses do answer, or stand on 
the left hand, against the Degree of that sign the Sun was in 
on that day at 12 o’clock: so by looking in those Tables for the 
time answering to the Sun’s place, and adding that-to the time 
of the Day when the Question was proposed, you have your 
Figure. 


(To be concluded in our following Number.) 



THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


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PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORM ATUM. 

(Continued from page 34.) 

EXTRACT II. 

It hath been the common custom of our modern Pretenders to 
Astrology to impose on the world, and abuse the Art they pretend 
to, by printing the Nativities of dead persons for true ones; for 
when they are laid in their Graves, it is presumed that nothing 
can happen afterwards able to contradict the Authority of their 
Rules, in the pretended correction of the deceased man’s Geni- 
ture; for now all accidents cease, and the common Professors 
rest satisfied, that what was done was true, they not being able 
or willing to make any further enquiry after it, nor perhaps can, 
they. From hence they pretend to give reasons for all the past 
actions of life, famous or infamous Healths, Sickness, and last of 
all. Death itself; making every thing appear as plain as the Sun 
upon the Meridian, especially to those who do not understand it. 
And lest any of those advantageous notions should be lost, they 
are printed and published to instruct the young Tyro's and stu¬ 
dents in this Science, where they may find the Nativity printed, 
and the Reasons thereof annexed ; with choice Rules and Apho¬ 
risms fit to be considered by those that are Beginners, that they 
may be led out of their way; and by the Old ones, that they may 
be confirmed in their Errors : For those Nativities that are com¬ 
monly printed, are made by the Astrologers, they often differing 
from the true time, one, two or three hours, and sometimes more 
So he did, that promised his Client in print, he should live one or 
two and thirty years longer, and the poor Gentleman was dead 
before the Book teas published. So that it is safer to take a Na- 


asthologer's pocket companion. 6? 

tivity by guess only, than by their Correction, and perhaps uearer 
the truth : Not to mention the story of Sir F. H. or Mr. P. with 
many others, that may fairly challenge a place in this story, be¬ 
sides this Gentleman, whose Nativity is the subject of this trea¬ 
tise, and hath been as unfairly used by them, as any man what¬ 
ever. For as long as he lived they let him have Pisces ascend¬ 
ing, and Mars in his ascendant, which they thought a Position 
very suitable to his grandeur and courage, and for one that was 
so great a warrior. And this passed very well among them for 
some years, without any distrust of the truth of it; and by that 
figure they could prove all his sickness, honors, victories, &c. But 
at last he died; and to the amazement of the whole society, with¬ 
out any direction to kill him; which without doubt put them out 
of their trims for a while, till they had agreed upon making anew 
Nativity; for it Mas in vain for them to believe that any man 
would think that to be his true one, when they had no direction 
(no, not a sham one) to make the world believe that he died by 
order from the stars ; and that was strange, they had no direction 
at that time, for they are seldom unprovided the ascendant to the 
square or opposition of Jupiter or Venus, the ascendant to his 
own sexlile, square, or trine, in signs of long or short ascension, 
as occasion serves; or the Sun or Moon to the square of the Dra¬ 
gon's Tail or such like stuff as this is; and though this may 
seem nauseous and fulsome, to hear such fooleries as these are, 
yet I do assure you they make use of such things, and worse, if 
worse can be in point of reason*. But at this time it seems they 
had not such directions as they thought probable to pass among 
the rest of the society; and therefore a new Nativity must be 

* This is also the case with many modern professors, vide 
page 63, of the “ Straggler.”—En.^ 


54 the spirit op partridge ; or, 

found out, and it must be such a one too that proves his death, 
though it prove nothing else. 

And the next they pitched upon, was farther from the true time 
of his birth, than the former was; for now they make him Aries 
ascending, and the Sun in his horoscope in Taurus , and Saturn 
and Mars in opposition from the cusp of the first and seventh 
houses, and in square to his tenth, and Jupiter in opposition to 
his midheaven, and in square to his ascendant, which would 
make but an untoward Nativity, (according to their own rules, 
and Gadbury’s in particular, printed by himsolf, but all bor¬ 
rowed), for a person of his courage, conduct , bravery, and pre¬ 
sence of mind in his most dangerous undertakings. For Mars 
on the ascendant must be allowed to shew his manners, disposi¬ 
tion, and temper, by being in that angle, as you may see Doctr. 
Nativ. page 91, and then his being in opposition to Saturn , and 
in square to Jupiter, must make a very odd tempered man, mo¬ 
rose, peevish, rash, and unsuccessful in his general endeavours, 
and withal sickly, vide Cardin Cadi., page 34, s. 78, in his own 
words : To which I w ill add, that the opposition to Saturn should 
make him timorous and fearful, and by consequence a little 
cowardly, and of a base spirit; but I could never hear his ene¬ 
mies charge any of these things in the least on him; but they say 
he was brave, bold , and generous ; and that he never had any 
fear or terror upon him, but always beat that into his enemies; 
and when he took them, used them more like gentlemen at liberty 
than prisoners ; but besides they all allow, that the lord of the 
tenth in opposition to Mars, and both in square to the mid-hea¬ 
ven, is a fatal position to any man’s honor when born to it; and 
then pray how should such a position give such grandeur and 
power as he advanced to, if their rules are true ? vide Doctr. 
Nat. page 164. For it is certain, that Saturn and Mars in op- 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 


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position from the first and seventh, would make him a very ill- 
natured man, and subject to many misfortunes; and indeed I 
could spend some pages after this manner from their own Authors 
and words, directly opposite to this position, and very probable 
to prove, that this which was then printed, was not the Protect¬ 
or’s true Nativity; but I shall leave all these arguments and 
reasonings, because I have better to insist upon, which will 
better srrve, and more demonstrably prove the falsity of that 
Figure, and the unskilfulness of him that made it; and so I come 
to the matter more nearly. 

The Figure of this great man’s Nativity is owned by a very 
worthy gentleman, one J. Gadbury by name, and by him printed 
in his crowd of errors, called Collectio Geniturarum, or a Col¬ 
lection of choice Nativities, that is, of his own making ; now this I 
could have passed by, and looked on it as the effect and oversight 
of his juvenile years ; but he prints the same in his Card. Call, 
after five and twenty years, to shew that he was still the same 
man, and that he had no more skill in his own profession in 1685, 
than in 1659; and by doing that, he seems to me to justify all the 
errors in that book, of which those of the Protector’s are some 
of the greatest; and to say the truth, this of his Cardine’s Cali 
is as full of fooleries and absurdities as the other; which I shall 
endeavour more fully to evince, before I conclude this Treatise. 

The time he sets this Figure for, is the twenty-fifth of April 
at almost forty-seven minutes after three of the clock in the morn¬ 
ing 1599, and upon that position he spends a whole page to tell his 
Readers that there are several things concur to prove it true, be¬ 
sides the directions he after mentions; as the opposition of Sa¬ 
turn and Mars from Aries and Libra, the three superiors in their 
own dignities, and above all cardinal signs, possessing the four 
angles of the figure; which in the Nativity of Charles Gustavus ’ 

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THE SMRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

as well as this of the Protector's, was (as Gad. says) fully ve¬ 
rified. And from these two fictious Nativities (for such they both 
are) he confidently forms this notion into an Astrological apho- 
,rism, and prints it in his Choice Collection, (Aphor. 18, of which 
more hereafter), and after abundance of sorry stuff besides, he 
concludes with these words. ‘Presuming that divers Artists will 
‘ be curious in scanning this geniture, I shall for their assistance 
‘ and prevention of trouble, present them with a Catalogue of se 
‘ veral Accidents of his Life, and the Directions, &c. that were 
‘ in an Astrological sense) the proper occasions of them, and 
‘ t and with no small pains to me) they are these following. And 
here I desire the Reader, and all that pretend to be Artists, to 
consider his reasons for correcting this Nativity. 

1. In the year 1040, this Natives grandeur began, for then he 
was first called into public business, by being chosen a Member of 
Parliament; to signify which, he had as (J. G. says) his mid¬ 
heaven to the Dragon's Head; now, is this a probable thing, 
that this Node should give greater advantage than the M. C. to 
the trine of Saturn, and sextile of Mars, nay, the greatest of 
all, for this was the beginning and ground of all the rest of bis 
honours and preferments both in the state and army. Now if 
you Vvill but consider this Dragons Head and Tail are nothing 
but the intersections of the ecliptic and orbit of the Moon at op¬ 
posite points, and those two circles are but imaginary, and there¬ 
fore the two Nodes cannot be otherways: Again, why one of 
these points should be a Fortune, and the other an Infortune, is 
a mystery that the great Masters of this Science still reserve in 
their own bosoms. But to the question in hand: Pray what is 
the reason that the Medium Celi to the Dragon's Head should 
give such present honour, and lay the ground work for the future, 
when the M. C. to the trine of Saturn, and sextile of Mars went 


astrologer's pocket companion. 67 

a little before it, and gave nothing at all, as we know of: And 
yet this Native, designed by God and Nature to so great a man 
as he after proved, and that too, from the nature and principles 
of these two stars, policy, power, and courage ? And indeed I 
would intreat honest John to present the world with some Trea¬ 
tise that might resolve and unfold these secret Nostrums not yet 
known to the unbelieving world, as I suppose he calls the great, 
if not the greatest part of the Nation. But did this Dragon's 
Head give this ? if it should happen to prove true, I protest it is a 
most admirable discovery; but I doubt this is the first experi¬ 
ment, and judge it will be the last too of its kind; for whosoever 
should have occasion, to try it in another case of the like nature, 
will find themselves wretchedly deceived and cheated. For 
throughout his Choice Collections he never tells you a word of 
any one being preferred by the M. C. to the Dragon’s Head, but 
that Minister’s being elected Fellow, page 111, but to tell you 
the truth it was not on that, but the ascendant to the body of 
Venus, as he tells you himself; but he doth not tell you one word 
of the effect of the M. C. to the Dragon's Head in Dr. George 
Starkey's Nativity. However, he tickled off his friend Mr. Blyn- 
man with imprisonments and scandals upon the M. C. to the 
Dragon's Tail; but to tell you plainly, those Accidents (if the 
Figure be true) were from the Sun to the opposition of Saturn, 
who is the real author of such things as these, as the case then 
stood; and he hath let Mr. Eastwood , page 170, pass by his 
M. C. to the Dragon's Head, without any remarkable effect, 
which shews a kind of plaguy ill-nature in him, to let the young 
man of twenty years of age pass without some good effect of it, 
sure he might have deserved something at that age, as well as 
Oliver, to have all at forty. In a word, I think he hath knocked 
two or three little babes besides with the Dragon’s Tail, which 


58 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

is as usual as the other in its place, and serves sometimes as a 
dead lift. But let him prove to me if he can, why the Head and 
Tail should not be both of one and the same nature, if they have 
any influence at all, or power to give good or evil in directions; 
I confess I could never find it. 

(To be continued.) 


BIOGRAPHY.; 

LIFE OF CARDAN. 


Cardan (Hieronymus, or Jerom), one of the most extraordi¬ 
nary geniuses of his age, was born at Pavia, in Italy, September 
24, 1501. At four years old he was carried to Milan, his father 
being an advocate and physician in that city; at the age of 
twenty he went to the university in the same city; two years after 
he explained Euclid. In 1524 he went to Padua; the same year 
he was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts; and in the 
year following to that of Doctor of Physic. He married about 
the year 1531, and became professor of Mathematics, and prac¬ 
tised Medicine at Milan about 1533. In 1539 he was admitted a 
Member of the College of Physicians at Milan ; in 1543 he read 
public lectures on Medicine there, and the same at Pavia the year 
following, "but he discontinued them, because he could not get 
payment of his salary, and returned to Milan. 

In 1552 he went into Scotland, having been sent for by the 
Archbishop of St. Andrew’s, to cure him of a grievous disorder, 
after trying the physicians of the King of France, and the Em- 




astrologer’s pocket companion, 5& 

peror of Germany without benefit. He began to recover from the 
day that Cardan prescribed for him; our author took leave of him 
at the end of six weeks and three days, leaving him prescriptions, 
which, in two years, wrought a complete cure. Upon this visit, 
Cardan passed through London, and calculated King Edward’s 
nativity; for he was very famous for his knowledge in Astrology, 
as well as of Mathematics and Medicine. Returning to Milan, 
after four months absence, he remained there till the beginning 
of October, 1552, and then went to Pavia, whence he was in¬ 
vited to Bolonga, in 1562. 

He taught in this last city till the year 1570, at which time he 
was thrown into prison; but some months afterwards he was sent 
home to his own house. He quitted Bolonga in 1571, and went 
to Rome, where he lived some time without any public employ¬ 
ment, he was however admitted a member of the College of Phy¬ 
sicians, and received a pension from the Pope, till the time of 
his death, which happened at Rome on the 21st September, 1575. 

Cardan, at the same time, he was one of the greatest geniuses, 
and most learned men of his age in all the sciences, was one of 
the mcst eccentric and fickle in conduct of all men that ever 
lived; despising all good principles and opinions, and without one 
sincere friend in the world. The same capriciousness that was 
remarkable in his outward conduct, is also observable in the 
composition of his numerous and elaborate works. In many of 
his Treatises, the reader is stopped almost every moment, by the 
obscurity of his text, or by his degressions from the point in 
hand. In his arithmetical writings, there are several discourses 
on the motions of the Planets, the Creation, the Tower of Babel, 
and the like; and the apology he made for these frequent digres¬ 
sions is, that he might by that means enlarge and fill up his 
book: his bargain with the bookseller being so much per sheet, 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


and that he worked as much for his daily support as for fame , 
The Lyons edition of his work, printed in 1663, contains no less 
than ten volumes in folio. 

In fact, when we consider the transcendant qualities of Car¬ 
dan’s mind, it cannot be denied, that he cultivated it with every 
species of knowledge, and he made a greater progress in philo¬ 
sophy, in the medical art, in astrology, in mathematics, and the 
other sciences, than most of his contemporaries, who had applied 
themselves to only one of those sciences. In particular, he was 
one of the very best algebraists of his time, a science in which 
he made great improvements, and his labours in cubic equations 
especially, have rendered his name immortal; the rules for re¬ 
solving them having ever since borne his name, and are likely to 
do so as long as the science shall exist, although he received his 
first knowledge of them from another person. 

Scaliger, foolishly affirms, that Cardan having by Astrology 
predicted and fixed the time of his death, abstained from all food 
that his prediction might be fulfilled. It is further remarkable 
that Cardan’s father died in this manner in the year 1524, having 
abstained from sustenance nine days. 


PARADOX. 


There are certain Planets said to be in conjunction with the 
Sun, not only when they appear in the same degree of their 

orbit with the Sun, but when they are in that degree of their 
orbit diametrically opposite to him. Query—What Planets are 

they ? 



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26 

36 

7 

18 

25 

10^12 

4 

54 

7 

26 

27 

9 

4 

0 

14 

34 

28 

2 

8 

19 

26 

22 9 

4 

34 

7 

30 

27 

9 

4 

45 

15 

48 

29 

29 

9 

20 

27 

4y42 

4 

3 

7 

34 

27 

9 

5 

30 

17 

2 

0—57 

10 

21 

27 

16 22 

3 

20 

7 

37 

27 

9 

6 

14 

18 

16 

2 

27 

11 

22 

28 

28 44 

2 

27 

7 

41 

27 R 9 

6 

59 

19 

30 

3 

57 

12 

23 

29 

11(520 

1 

16 

7 

45 

27 

9 

7 

44 

20 

49 

5 

2S 

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29 

24 16 

0 

19 

7 

48 

27 

9 

8 

29 

21 

58 

7 

0 

14 

25 

30 

7H34 

On 62 

7 

52 

27 

8 

9 

13 

23 

12 

8 

33 

15 

26 

30 

21 19 

2 

1 

7 

55 

27 

7 

9 

57 

24 

25 

10 

7 

16 

27 

31 

5<S32 

3 

5 

7 

59 

27 

6 

10 

42 

25 

39 

11 

42 

17 

28 

31 

20 12 

3 

59 

8 

2 

37 

5 

11 

26 

26 

53 

13 

18 

18 

29 

32 

5ftl5 

4 

38 

8 

5 

27 

4 

12 

10 

28 

7 

14 

64 

19 

0X32 

20 32 

4 

58 

8 

7 

27 

3 

12 

54 

29 

20 

16 

31 

© 

1 

32 

5Tfl?52 

4 

57 

8 

9 

27 

1 

13 

39 

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18 

9 

21 

2 

32 

21 4 

4 

34 

8 

11 

26 

59 

14 

23 

1 

48 

19 

49 

22 

3 

23 

5:£57 

3 

53 

8 

13 

26 

57 

15 

7 

3 

2 

21 

29 

23 

4 

33 

20 24 

2 

59 

8 

15 

26 

55 

15 

51 

4 

16 

23 

0 

24 

5 

34 

4TR20 

1 

64 

8 

17 

26 

62 

16 

35 

5 

29 

24 

52 

26 

6 

34 

17 47 

0 

46 

8 

19 

26 

50 

17 

19 

6 

43 

26 

36 

26 

7 

34 

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0 s 28 

8 

21 

26 

47 

18 

3 

7 

57 

28 

21 

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8 

34 

13 22 

1 

28 

8 

23 

26 

44 

18 

47 

9 

10 

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9 

84 

25 40 

2 

28 

8 

25 

26 

41 

19 

31 

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23 

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53 

29 

10 

85 

7\$>44 

3 

20 

8 

26 

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38 

20 

15 

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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for MARCH, 1780. 


y’s 

Long. 


H's 

Lat. 


C ’■ 

Node. 


b’s 

Lat. 


1 

7 

13 

19 

25 

191358 
20 d 0 
20 5 

20 12 
20 20 

0 > 
0 

0 

0 

0 

8 

8 

8 

8 

8 

26Q 52 
26 33 
26 14 
25 55 
25 36 

1 n 55 
1 56 

1 56 
1 57 
1 58 

In 30 
1 31 

1 32 
1 33 
1 34 

© © O © © 

1 

[ 3 
7 

11 

14 

Os 30 
0 13 
On 6 
0 25 
0 46 

2 s 3 

1 40 

0 58 

0 n 4 

1 15 

D 

M 

O 

K 

c 

vy 

C ** 

Lat. 

h 

X 


& 

r 

9 

r 

$ 

H 

1 

11 

35 

19 

40 

4s 3 

8 

28 

26 

35 

20 

59 

12 

49 

6 

29 

2 

12 

35 

1^31 

4 

34 

8 

29 

26 

3121 

43 14 

2 

7 

19 

3 

13 

35 

13 

22 

4 

54 

8 

31 

26 

27 22 

26 15 

15 

9 

10 

4 

14 

35 

25 

13 

5 

1 

8 

32 

26 

2323 

10 16 

28 

11 

1 

o 

15 

35 

7K 8 

4 

55 

8 

33 

26 

1923 

54 17 

41 

12 

54 

6 

16 

35 

19 

8 

4 

36 

8 

34 

26 

1524 

38 18 

64 

14 

48 

7 

17 

35 

1-T14 

4 

4 

8 

35 

26 

1025 

21 20 

7 

16 

43 

8 

18 

35 

13 

27 

3 

21 

8 

36 

26 

5;26 

521 

20 

IS 

39 

9 

19 

34 

25 

48 

2 

28 

8 

37 

26 

0 

26 

48 22 

32 

20 

36 

10 

20 

34 

8^19 

1 

27 

8 

37 

25 

55 

27 

3223 

45 

22 

34 

11 

21 

34 

21 

2 

0 

20 

8 

38 

25 

50 

28 

16 24 

57 

24 

32 

G) 

22 

34 

4D 1 

On 49 

8 

39 

25 

44 

28 

59 26 

10 

26 

31 

13 

23 

34 

17 

IS 

1 

57 

8 

39 

25 

39 

29 

42 27 

22 

28 

30 

14 

24 

33 

05556 

3 

0 

8 

40 

25 

33 

002628 

34 

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15 

25 

33 

14 

56 

3 

55 

8 

40 

25 

28 

1 

9 

29 

46 

2 

30 

16 

26 

32 

29 

19 

4 

36 

8 

40 

25 

22 

1 

52 

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4 

30 

17 

27 

32 

140 2 

5 

0 

8R40 

25 

16 

2 

35 

2 

10 

6 

29 

18 

28 

32 

28 

59 

5 

4 

8 

40 

25 

10 

3 

18 

3 

22 

8 

26 


29 

31 

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4 

47 

8 

40 

25 

4 

4 

1 

4 

34 

10 

25 

20 

r 

30 

29 

4 

4 

11 

8 

39 

24 

57 

4 

44 

5 

46 

12 

21 

21 

1 

30 

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3 

18 

8 

39 

24 

51 

5 

27 

6 

67 

14 

16 

22 

2 

29 

28 

17 

2 

14 

8 

38 

24 

45 

6 

10 

8 

9 

16 

8 

23 

3 

29 

12TR18 

1 

2 

8 

38 

24 

39 

6 

52 

9 

21 

17 

57 

24 

4 

28 

25 

51 

Os 10 

8 

37 

24 

31 

7 

35 

10 

32 

19 

43 

25 

5 

27 

8J57 

1 

20 

8 

37 

24 

24 

8 

18 

11 

44 

21 

27 


6 

26 

21 

39 

2 

24 

8 

36 

24 

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9 

1 

12 

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23 

7 

2^ 

7 

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4 VP 1 

3 

19 

8 

35 

24 

10 

9 

44 

14 

6 

24 

42 

28 

8 

25 

16 

8 

4 

4 

8 

34 

24 

3 

10 

26 

15 

17 

26 

12 

29 

9 

24 

28 

6 

4 

38 

8 

33 

23 

56 

11 

9 

16 

28 

27 

37 

30 

10 

23 

9~*67 

5 

0 

8 

32 

23 

49 

11 

62 

17 

39 

28 

57 

31 

11 

22 21 

48 

5 

9 

8 

31 

23 

41 

12 

34 

18 

60 

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Cf’s 

Lat. 


9’s 

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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for APRIL, 1780. 


D 


5 s 

y’s 

C s 

h 

’s 


’s 

c?' 

’s 

9’ 

s 

9 

’8 

M 

Long. 

Lat. 

Node. 

Lat. 

Lat. 

Lat. 

Lat. 

Lat. 

1 

son 30 

0 9 

25Q14 

1 n59 

1 n 34 

On 19 

In 

9 

2 n 29 

7 

20 

42 

0 9 

24 55 

1 

59 

1 

34 

0 

23 

1 

29 

3 

4 

13 

20 

55 

0 9 

24 36 

2 

0 

1 

34 

0 

27 

1 

46 

2 

54 

19 

21 

11 

0 9 

24 17 

2 

0 

1 

34 

0 

30 

2 

5 

1 

55 

25 

21 

26 

0 9 

23 58 

2 

1 

1 

34 

0 

33 

2 

19 

0 

20 

D 

M 

O 

r 

d H 

o 

Lat. 

W 

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r 

9. 

b 

$ 

e 

1 

12 

21 

3 42 

5 s 4 

8 

29 

23 

34 

13 

16 

20 

i 

1 1 

20 

0 

13 

20 

15 41 

4 46 

8 

28 

23 

26 

13 

59 

21 

12| 

2 

23 

3 

14 

19 

27 48 

4 16 

8 

26 

23 

19 

14 

41 

22 

22 

1 3 

20 

4 

15 

is!ior 4 

3 33 

8 

25 

23 

11 

15 

23 

23 

38 

| 4 

12 

5 

10 

17 

22 31 

2 39 

8 

23 

23 

4 

16 

5 

24 

44 

4 

58 

6 

17 

16 

5tf 8 

1 37 

8 

21 

22 

56 

16 

47 

25 

54 

5 

36 

7 

18 

15 

17 56 

0 28 

8 

19 

22 

48 

17 

29 

27 

4 

6 

7 

8 

19 

14 

OB 57 

0 n43 

8 

17 

22 

40 

18 

12 

28 

14 

6 

31 

0 

20 

13 14 11 

1 53 

8 

15 

22 

33 

18 

54 

29 

23 

6 

49 

10 

21 

12,27 39 

2 59 

8 

13 

22 

25 

19 

36 

0H33 

7 

0 

11 

22 

io'llsss 

3 54 

8 

11 

22 

IS 

20 

18 

1 

43 

7 

5 

jl2|23 

9 

25 20 

4 37 

8 

8 

22 

10 

21 

0 

2 

52 

7 R 4 


s 

9&32 

5 4 

8 

6 

22 

3 

21 

42 

4 

1 

6 

57 

14 25 

6 

23 56 

5 IS 

8 

3 

21 

55 

22 

24 

5 

11 

6 

45 

15 26 

5 

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5 2 

8 

1 


46 

23 

6 

6 

20 

6 

27 

027 

3 

23 6 

4 31 

7 • 

58 

21 

40 

23 

46 

7 

29 

6 

4 

1 

28 

2 

7=^41 

3 43 

7 

55 

21 

33 

24 

30 

8 

38 

5 

36 

l 8 

29 

0 

22 6 

2 41 

7 

52 

21 

25 

25 

12 

9 

46 

5 

5 

l9 

29 

69 

60117 

1 30 

7 

49 

21 

18 

25 

53 

10 

55 

4 

30 

20 

Otf 57 

20 9 

0 15 

7 

46 

21 

10 


35 

12 

3 

3 

53 

21 

1 

56 

3$3S 

0 s 59 

7 

43 

21 

3 

27 

17 

13 

11 

3 

14 

22 

2 

54 

16 44 

2 8 

7 

39 

20 

55 

27 

58 

14 

19 

2 

34 

© 

3 

52 

29 29 

3 8 

7 

36 

20 

48 

28 

40 

15 

27 

1 

53 

24 

4 

50 

1 lVy 55 
24 0 

3 58 

7 

33 

20 

40 

29 

22 

16 

34 

1 

14 

25 

5 

49 

4 37 

7 

29 

20 

33 

on 3 

17 

42 

0 

35 

26 

6 

47 

6- 6 

5 2 

7 

25 

20 

26 

0 

45 

18 

50 

29 V 58 

27 

7 

45 

18 C 

5 15 

7 

22 

20 

19 

1 

26 

19 

57 

29 

23 

28 

S 

43 

29 53 

5 14 

7 

18 

20 

12 

2 

7 

21 

4 

28 

51 

29 

9 

42 

11*48 

4 59 

7 

15,20 

5 

2 

48 

22 

11 

28 

22 

© 

10 

40 

23 51 

4 31 

7 

11 

I 

I 19 

56 

3 

29 

23 

18 

27 

57 







































asetologer’s pocket companion. 


01 


INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY. 


In order that the Student may obtain a proficiency in the Sci¬ 
ence, it is essentially necessary that he should have a distinct 
idea of the branches into which it is divided. These, though all 
agreeing in one end, namely, the foreknowledge of future events 
by the stars, differ widely in the means by which this object is 

attained. 

% 

Astrology is divided into three parts— 

MUNDANE, GENETHLIACAL, AND HORARY. 

Mundane Astrology is that branch of the Science, by 
which it is said we are enabled to predict all national occur¬ 
rences, and all changes in the atmosphere. The mode gene¬ 
rally used to predict the former, is by erecting a Figure of the 
Heavens for the time the Sun enters the signs Aries, Qancer, 
Libra, and Capricorn (for what reason it is impossible to ima¬ 
gine), and every country and city being, it is said, under the go* 
vernment of a particular sign, as the rulers of these signs agree 
or disagree with each other, it is supposed the countries they re¬ 
present will be at peace or war. Different planets too are sup¬ 
posed to signify the several classes of society, as Jupiter for the 
clergy, Mars the army, &c. and as these planets are ill or well 
dignified, it is said these orders will be advanced or depressed. 
Of numerous predictions, very few are verified, and it is proba¬ 
ble those which are fulfilled, are more indebted to the good for¬ 
tune of the Astrologer than any other cause. It seems highly ir¬ 
rational to imagine, that one sign can exert more influence over 
a particular country than another, though it must be confessed 
that violent aspects of the malignant planets, disastrous occur- 



62 


THE SPIRIT Ofr PARTRIDGE} Oft, 


rences of all kinds are more frequent. Murders are of a more 
atrocious nature when the infortunes are in evil aspect, than at 
any other period; this may be accounted for from these planets 
transiting the Nativities of the sufferers, and thus bringing into 
action the unfortunate positions of the radix* 

GENETHLIACAL ASTROLOGY, 
is that part which treats of the intellectual powers, the bodily 
health, life, and fortune of mankind. In this department 
of the Science, nothing i9 to be taken into consideration 
which has not a real and determinate influence. Essential dig¬ 
nities not being founded either on reason, experience, or nature, 
must be totally disregarded, still less can any imaginary point 
whether the part of Fortune, the Dragon’s Head or his Tail, be 
allowed to have any power over the life or fortune of the native. 
We must consider the planets as immense masses of matter acting 
upon each other, according to established laws of attraction and 
repulsion. One advantage arising from the study of this branch 
of the science, is the intimate knowledge which it gives of the 
minds of individuals, whether as it regards their temper or their 
abilities, the man of genius may be distinguished by his Nativity, 
the poet,, the painter, and the philosopher, each bears in his ge- 
niture the distinguishing characteristic of his,avocation. Astro¬ 
logy thus combines the boasted advantage* of physiognomy and 
phrenology, with others peculiarly its own. The Phrenologist 
merely ascertains the intellectual powers when in a state of rest; 
the Astrologer foretells the time when they can be most advanta¬ 
geously employed. This department requires the most patient 
and rigorous examination, many errors and absurdities have crept 
into it by the ignorance and stupidity of some of its professors, 
and the truth can only be elicited by a strict attention to the pro¬ 
bable causes of events, in well authenticated Nativities. It shall 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 63 

be our office to Supply as many of these as are in our power, and 
we doubt not we shall have the cordial co-operation and assist* 
ance of all well-wishers to Astrology. 

HORARY ASTROLOGY 

furnishes us with the means of satisfying those doubts to which 
we are all subject on the success of any undertaking. It is more 
easily attainable than any other part of the science, and is cer¬ 
tainly by no means the least useful. The merchant, may by this 
means learn the result of his speculations, the anxious parent, 
the Welfare of his absent child, the client the termination of his 
suit, or any other affair which may seriously interest him. Horary 
Astrology is dependant on sympathy for its foundation, it is there¬ 
fore evident that no question can be radical, or one from which 
any prediction can be made without the person is sincere in his 
desire to know the result. The planets are to be considered as 
indicating, not causing certain events, consequently any system 
which is clear and consistent may be adopted, provided it be al¬ 
ways adhered to. The best rules, from the most approved astro¬ 
logical authors, will be given in the succeeding Numbers of this 
Work to enable any person to judge of his own figures. We 
would particularly advise every person to preserve his figures 
after he has erected them, and by comparing them at some future 
time with the events that have occurred, he will both see and cor¬ 
rect any errors into which he may have been led by carelessness 
or self-love. 


i. . - 4 




C4 


THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE; OK, 


TO THE EDITOR. 


Sir, 

It was with unfeigned delight but with anxiety, after seeing 
your Prospectus, fhat I waited for your First Number. Such a 
work as your’s has been much wanted, nay, it has been impe¬ 
riously called for, to rescue the Science of Astrology from the 
disgrace attached to it by the mountebank productions of arecent 
date. I assure you from the avowal of your principles, and from 
the able manner agreeably to those principles which you have il¬ 
lustrated as far as you have gone, the geniture of the late Queen, 
I confidently anticipate a new era in our Science. 

I am the person who some few w r eeks since, wrote to the 
% “ Straggling Astrologer,” and among other questions, asked 
him what were the most approved works on Astrology, at the 
same time particularly requesting him to favour me, if possible, 
from whom or where I could procure, on reasonable terms, the 
“ Opus” of Partridge, telling him also that I had studied bis 
“ Defectio,” and was very anxious for the above work. Judge 
my surprise, good spirit of our immortal Partridge, when he in a 
succeeding number of his work says, in reply, “ There is cer¬ 
tainly no book existing, that can teach a person Astrology.” 

This suffice to convince me he wax an ignorant pretender, for 
cannot it be supposed that the “ Straggler” had his wonderful 
gifts by inspiration. But had I needed any corroboration of the 
estimate I had formed of his abilities, his late remarks on the 
Dragon’s Tail had certainly furnished me with ample. 

I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant, 

THE WESTMINSTER STUDENT. 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 


65 


TRANSLATION OF ARGOL’S APHORISMS. 

Book II. Chapter 1. 

OF DISEASES IN GENERAL, AND WHETHER CUR¬ 
ABLE OR NOT. 

The chief method of forming a judgment of the violence and 
magnitude of a Disease, or whether it is cureable or fatal, is to 
inspect the scheme of the Heavens erected at the time of Birth 
(if it can be had), as sickness very seldom happens but through 
some malignant directions of the luminaries, or of the ascendant 
to the body or aspects of the malefies, some impending direction 
capable of producing it, perhaps united with some transit, whe¬ 
ther of the annual revolution, or the profection, which may easily 
cause it; if this direction was supported from the benefic influ¬ 
ence of Jupiter or Venus, nothing can prevent a happy termina¬ 
tion ; and if the revolution for the year was evil, and the pro¬ 
fection likewise concur in the evil, it foretels that the distemper 
will be very great, fatal, or difficult to cure; but if the direction 
be weak, the revolution not unfortunate, the benefics assist, and 
the profection favorable, the disease is curable, and health will 
succeed. We know that the moment of Birth is a consideration 
above all others; as oftentimes from the figure of the deeumbi 
ture, at the commencement of a disease, no cause of distemper 
appears ; this however is evident, that from the strength of the 
direction of the apheta to the malefies, the unfortunate annual 
ingress, adn the evil profection, diseases derive their origin. 
The direction for the year should therefore be examined, and 
also other divisions of time that might apparently cause such 



CO 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


an influx; because it may proceed from the directions in the ge- 
niture, and from the transits of the revolution, or the position on 
the malefics, but if the figure of the Birth cannot be had, or if 
it be not exact, and rectified by accidents, in this case the de- 
cumbiture must be had recourse to, and used in its stead. 

To judge from a figure erected for a disease, the state of the 
luminaries, and particularly of the Sun must be considered, as 
well as the ascendant, and their depositors, and in the first place 
respect must be had to the lord of the eighth house of this 
figure. The bcnefics and malefics must also be observed, namely, 
as to their situation respecting the said luminaries, the ascendant 
and its lord; also how the lord of the sixth (or house of sickness) 
and the eighth (that of death) be configurated with them; and 
also the luminaries with the ascendant, and if they are by any 
means evilly configurated to the malefics, not being extremely 
afflicted or configurated with the lord of the eighth, then endea¬ 
vour to discover what help the benefics afford, and what evil 
may be expected from the malefics. A safe recovery from sick¬ 
ness may be predicted, if the luminaries, the ascendant, and the 
lord thereof were afflicted by malefic Stars of the same nature 
as the lord of the eighth with sufficient assistance from the bene- 
fics to avert the evil of the disease ; a safe recovery may also be 
anticipated if the Moon be with Venus or Jupiter, or have their 
sextiles or trines, and Venus or Jupiter in their dignities, for 
these planets promise a happy conclusion: safety may also be 
prognostic ated from a square or opposition of the benefics to the 
Moon (for benefics in any aspect produce good, and never evil,) 
though in a smaller degree than the sextile or trine. Venus 
assists more in hot diseases, and Jupiter in cold. 

Saturn in a decumbiture joined to the Moon is evil, and gene¬ 
rally denotes long and chronic diseases, and is more hurtful when 


ASTROLOGER’S POCKET COMPANION 1 . 


67 


his motion is slow or retrograde, than when quick and direct. 
He also prolongs the course of the disease, and generally causes 
a relapse ; when oriental, it increases the heat and violence more 
than when occidental; at which time it increases the cold. If 
the square of Saturn afflict the Moon or the opposition, or the 
antiscion, or the contra-antiscion, the evil is less than that 
arising from the conjunction. Mars and the Moon in conjunction 
is very destructive; but in whatever light Mars may be consi¬ 
dered, the square or opposition are less injurious; he injures 
the Moon more in her increase than in her decrease; and also 
Mars is more powerful when oriental than when occidental. 
The Sun and Moon in conjunction is always hurtful, and fre¬ 
quently denotes death, particularly if the conjunction be partile; 
or only combust being not more than six degrees distant, or 
half of their orbs. Mercury and the Moon joined is hurtful, or salu¬ 
tary, according to his changeable nature, as he is situated with 
the benefics or malefics; for if he when occidental, has the rays 
of the malefics mixed with his, or his body be not near the be- 
nefics, and he joined with the Moon, it would be yery dange¬ 
rous ; and on the contrary, good if endowed with the benefic 
nature, the same as the benefics themselves. 

If at the beginning of the disease, the Moon were in the 
place of Saturn or Mars of the Nativity, or in square or oppo¬ 
sition, the disease is great, and to be feared; and the more if 
beheld by the malefics, she being apheta (or giver of life;) 
but if the Moon be in the place of Venus or Jupiter in the ge- 
niture, or in their good aspects, or if beheld by them it denotes 
good. 

(To be continued.) 




66 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE, ETC. 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

. 

The Editor wishes to know whether the gentleman who 
wrote in the “ Monthly Correspondent” for July, 1914, on the 
Nativity of a person under the signature of Mercurius is still 
in existence; if that be the case, and our little Work should 
meet his eye, we beg leave to inform him that his prediction 
in that Nativity (for we happen to know the native,) have 
been most minutely verified, to the great credit both of the 
artist and the science. 

We have to request the Westminster Student’s forgiveness 
for not noticing him before. W e are much obliged to him for 
those hints, which shall have every attention ; we are unable 
to inform him of another copy of the work he mentions at any 
price, but we are endeavouring to supply the deficiency. 
We are not aware that Partridge published any works sub¬ 
sequent to his Opus and Defectio. We shall not have occa¬ 
sion to trespass on his kindness for the Nativity he mentions, 
it having been already published, though certainly very im¬ 
perfectly; perhaps he can favour us with some other. When 
we can spare time, we will send a letter for him to our Pub¬ 
lishers, in answer to doubts, of which he shall have due 
notice. 

We do not comprehend the precise nature of “ Q. L.’s” re¬ 
quest ; the success of any application would be best deter¬ 
mined by a Horary question erected at the proper time, or a 
reference to his Nativity. 

Our calculation of Herschel is made from the Tables of Mr. 
Vince. 

“ X. Y. Z.’s” article on the Dragon’s Tail is totally unsuitable 
to our Work, (perhaps the “ Straggler” may be glad of it); 
let him reflect, this pointis wholly imaginary, and “of nothing, 
nothing can be made.” 

AU communications to the Editor, to be addressed to Messrs. 
Davis aud Dickson, St. Martin’s-le-Grand, post-paid 



THE 


SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; 

OR, THE 

ASTROLOGERS’ POCKET COMPANION, 


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DIRECTIONS FOR ERECTING A FIGURE OF THE 
HEAVENS, AND PLACING THE PLANETS IN THE 
HOROSCOPE. 

(Continued from page 51.) 



























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70 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

I would erect a Figure of the Heavens for Saturday, August 
the 28th, 1824, at 9 hours, 30 minutes, A. M. that is, half-past 
nine o’clock in the morning. To do this I refer to the first co¬ 
lumn on the right hand side of the Ephemeris for August, and 
opposite the 28th day of the month, in the second column, which 
has Q’s longitude printed at the top, I find 5, 4, 43, with the 
sign Virgo prefixed at the side of the first row of figures. This 
indicates that the Sun, at 12 o’clock that day, is in 5 degrees, 4 
minutes, and 43 seconds of the sign Virgo ; but the minutes when 
less than thirty, may be rejected without any material error; 
and when more than thirty, may have as many minutes added to 
them as will make them up sixty, or a degree. We therefore 
turn to the Table of Houses, and in the page entitled Sol in 
Virgo, we look for the column that has the sign Virgo at the top, 
which is the third; we seek for 5 degrees, and in the column of 
the left side of it, under the title, Time from Noon, we find it even 
with 5 degrees, 10 hours, 27 min. the Hours and Minutes thus 
found are to be added to the time or hour of the day when the 
Figure is to be erected; unless it be exactly at Noon, in which 
case, the places of the Sun, Planets, and Signs, are to be set 
down exactly as they are found iu the Ephemeris and Table of 
Houses ; but the present Figure being to be erected 2 hours and 
30 minutes before 12 o’clock, we must add this time, reckoning 
from Noon the preceding day, to the above 10 hours. 27 mia., 
and upon these two sums being added together, making above 
24 Jiours, we subtract 24 from it, and the remainder will give 
the degrees of each of the 12 Signs, as then posited upon the 


cusps of the Horoscope; thus— 

Hours Min. 

Time answering to 5 degrees of Virgo 

10 

27 

Time from Noon the preceding day 

21 

30 

Added together makes 

81 

67 

Subtract - 

24 

0 

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7 

57 


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asrtologer’s pocket companion. 71 

Which must be done in every Nativity or Question, when, if after 
addition it makes more than 24 hours ; but if less than 24, take 
the amount, which in this case after subtraction, is 7 hours, 57 
min.; and enter the Table of Houses in the column under the 
title Time from Noon with this remainder, but not finding 7 
hours, 57 min., we look for the nearest to it, which is 7 hours, 
56 min., and in a line with this in the next column, on the right 
hand, we find 27, and looking at the top of the column, we see 
it headed 10th House, Cancer, signifying that Cancer must be 
placed on the cusp of the 10th House, with 27 degrees affixed 
to it. This done, we must refer to the next column in rotation 
on the right hand, and in the same line with the 27 degree of 
Cancer, we find 1 deg. 42 min., and looking up the column as 
before, we find Virgo placed beneath Leo, and 11th House at 
top, which signifies 1 deg. 42 min. of Virgo, must be placed on 
the 11th House. We follow the same Rule with the next column, 
when we find 29 deg. 14 min., and looking to the top we find 
Virgo 12, we accordingly place 29 deg. 14 min. on the cusp of 
the 12th Honse. We then look to the next column, when we find 
90 deg. 26 min., and at the_ top the word Ascendant with the sign 
Libra affixed, which signifies that 20 deg, 26 min. of Libra must 
occupy the first House or Ascendant, which we place accord¬ 
ingly. We then look to the next column, and even with the pre¬ 
ceding figures, we find 16 deg. 36 min. We then look up the 
column, and find Scorpio placed underneath Libra, and 2d House 
at top. We accordingly place Scorpio 16 deg. 36 min. on the 
cusp of the 2d House. This done, we refer to the last column, 
and even with the former numbers find 19, 14, and looking up 
the column as before, find Sagittarius placed beneath Scorpio, 
with 3d House at top, which indicates that 19 deg. 14 min. of 
Sagittarius must be placed on the cusp of the 3d House. Thus 

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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


7 1 


the six Oriental Houses are obtained, with the degrees of each 
sign then rising upon them ; but here the learner must particu¬ 
larly note, that the last six Signs, are always opposite to jhe tirst 


six, as follows 

:— 


... . - 

Houses 

Opposite 

Signs 

Opposite, 

4th is the 10th to 

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5th 

11th 

0 


6th 

12 th 

n 

1 

1st 

7th 

3 

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8th 

r 

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9th 

n 

X 


Thus you see the 10th House is opposite to the 4th, and the 
4th to the 10th; the 11th to the 5th, and the 5th to the 11th, and 
so of the rest; the use of which is, that if on the cusp or the 
10th House you find the sign Cancer, then on the cusp of the 4th 
House you must place the sign Capricorn, and whatever degree 


and minute the sign Cancer possesses the cusp of the 10th House, 
the same degree and minute of the sign Capricorn must be 
placed on the cusp of the 4th House. The same Rule must be 
observed with respect to all the other Houses and Signs, which 
is universal, and always holds true. For example, we shall here 
subjoin them as the several Signs oppose each other in this 
Figure as follows: 


Deg Min Houses Deg Min. 

On the cusp of the 10th is 27 0 55 opposite 4 27 0 Vp 


on the 11th 
on the 12th 
on the 1st 
on the 2d 
on the 3d 


1 42 

29 14 TT£ 
20 26 
16 36 T)0E> 

19 14 J: 


5 1 42 X 

6 29 14 K 

7 20 26 T 

8 16 36 O 

9 19 14 n 


And thus are the twelve Houses completely occupied with the 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 73 

twelve Signs of the Zodaic, with the degrees ascending at the 
precise time of erecting the Figure. 

Having so far succeeded, the next thing is to place the Sun, 
Moon, and Planets in the Figure, agreeably to their position at 
this time inthe Heavens, and this is to be done by the help of the 
right hand page of the Ephemeris, of which White’s will be 
found the best. In this Ephemeris their places are calculated 
for Noon every day; but as this Figure is to be erected for2 hours 
30 minutes before Noon, we observe how far they have moved 
from Noon on the preceding day, as follows:— 

Deg. Min Sec. 

Sun’s place at Noon, August 28 - 5 3 43 T1J? 

- on the — 27 - 4 5 41 f 

0 58 2 

Which shews his motion to have been 58 min. 2 sec. in the 24< 
hours. We therefore say, by the Rule of Proportion, if 24 hours 
give 58 min. 2 sec., what will 1 hour give? It gives near two 
and a half minutes; consequently, 2 hours, 30 min., will give 
near 6 min. This 6 min. taken from 5 deg. 3 min. 43 sec., (as 
being before Noon) leaves for the Sun’s place 4 deg. 58 min. of 
the sign Virgo. On the above day you find the Moon’s place at 
Noon to be Libra 29 deg. 19 min., aud on the day before (viz. 
the 27th) Libra 14 deg. 58 min., which shews her daily motion 
to be 14 deg. 23 min., which makes her hourly motion about 
36 min., and her place will be found to be 27 deg. 49 min. of the 
sign Libra; the same day you find Saturn’s place to be 7 deg. 
25 min. of Gemini, and as he moves 3 min. a day, or about 8 sec. 
per hour, his true place will be about 7 deg. 24 min. of 




74 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

Gemini on tjie same day. Jupiter will be found to be in 2 deg 1 , 

14 min. of the sign Leo, and is found to move 13 min. per day ; 
consequently, its place will be about 2 deg. 13 min. of Leo. On 
the above day you find Mars in 12 deg. 53 min. of the sign Scor¬ 
pio, and moves at the rate of 39 min. daily, aud will be in about 
12 deg. 49 min. of Scorpio. Venus is in 13 deg. 17 min. of 
Virgo on that day at Noon, and is found to have moved l deg. 

15 min. since Noon on the preceding day, or about 3 min. an 
hour, therefore her true place will bo found to be 13 deg. 9 min. 
of Virgo. Mercury’s place at Noon is 0 deg. 13 min. of Libra, 
and is found to move 1 deg. 19 min. per day, or rather more than 
3 min. per hour, and his place will be about 4 min. of Libra. 

The Planets being thus entered, we next refer to the top of 
the right hand page of the Ephemeris for the column entitled the 
Moon’s Node, which is called the Dragon’s Head, and we find 
on the 25th day of the monthit is in 6 deg. 31 min. of Capricorn; 
but as it moves backward about 3 min. per day, I deduct 9 min. 
to bring it to the 28th of August, and its place will then be 
6 deg. 22 min. of Capricorn. We therefore enter it in the 3d 
House under the sign Capricorn, and as the place of the Dra¬ 
gon’s Tail is always opposite to the Dragon’s Head, we place it 
with the same degrees on the opposite sign, which in this Figure 
falls on the 9th House, as being opposite to the third. 

This figure is now complete, except putting in the part of 
Fortune, which is the distance of the Moon’s place from the Sun’s 
added to the Ascendant. There are many methods of taking it, 
(which we shall treat of in another place,) but the usual one is 
as follows :—Add the Ascendant to the Moon’s place, and from 

' / 


/ 


astrologer’s pocket companion. ?b 


their sum subtract the Sun’s place, and the remainder will be 
the place of Fortune. Example—• 


The Ascendant is in 20 deg. 20 min. of Libra, 

Signs 

Deg 

Min 

or 6 

20 

26 

The Moons place in 27 deg. 49 min. of Libra, 

or 6 

27 

49 

Their sum - 

13 

18 

15 

The Sun’s place in 4 deg. 58 min. of Virgo, or 

5 

4 

59 

/ ■ 

Gives the place of the part of Fortune 

/ 

8 

13 

17 


\ 


Which signifies 8 Signs, 13 deg. 17 min., that is 13 deg. 17 min. 
of the sign Sagittary. When subtraction cannot be made, 12 
signs must be added. 

This Figure is now completed, and includes all that is required 
for the purpose of judging Horary Questions, &c. but in Nati¬ 
vities regard must be had to the fixed Stars, according to their 
Magnitude, Influence, and Position near the Angles, and which 
will be taught in a future Number, when a Table of fixed Stars 
will be given. 

-o- 

CURIOUS ASTROLOGICAL ANECDOTE OF DRYDEN. 


Dbyden, the celebrated Poet, was extremely fond of Judicial 
Astrology, and used to calculate the Nativities of his children. 
When his lady was in labour with his son Charles, he being told 







76 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


it was decent to withdraw, laid his watch on the table, and 
begged one of the ladies then present, in the most solemn man' 
ner, to take exact notice of the very minute the child was born, 
which she accordingly did, and acquainted him with it. About 
a week after, when his lady was pretty well recovered, Mr. 
Dryden took occasion to tell her that he had been calculating 
the child’s Nativity, and observed with great sorrow, that he 
was born in an evil hour, for Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun were 
all under the earth, and the lord of his ascendant afflicted by a 
malignant square of Saturn and Mars. “ If he arrives at eight 
years,” said he, “ he will be in danger of a violent death on 
las birth-day; if he should escape, I see but small hopes. He 
will on the twenty-third year be again under an evil direction, 
and if he luckily should eseape that also, the thirty-third or 
thirty-fourth year I fear is -.” Here he was inter¬ 

rupted by the immoderate grief of his Lady Elizabeth, who 
could no longer bear to hear of so much calamity befal her son. 
The time at last came, and August was the inauspicious month 
in which Charles Dryden was to enter into his eighth year. 
The court being then in full progress, and Mr. Dryden at lei¬ 
sure, he was invited to the country [seat of the Earl of Berk¬ 
shire (his brother-in-law,) to keep the long vacation with him 
at Charlton, in Wilts. Lady Elizabeth was invited at the same 
time to her uncle Mordaunt’s to pass the remainder of the sum¬ 
mer. When they came to divide the children, Lady Elizabeth 
would gladly have had Mr. Dryden take John, and suffer her to 
have Charles, but Mr. Dryden w as too absolute, and they parted 
in some anger. He took Charles, and she was obliged to be 
contented with John. When the fatal day came, the anxiety of 
the lady’s spirits occasioned such an effervescence of blood, as 



ASfilOLOGEU’s POCKET COMPANION. 77 

threw her into so violent a fever, that her life was despaired of* 
till a letter came from Mr. Dryden, assuring her that her son 
Charles was well, which recovered her spirits, and in s^x 
months after she received an eelaircisseinent of the whole 
affair. Mr. Dryden perhaps, through fear of being reckoned su¬ 
perstitious, was extremely cautions of letting any one know that 
he w*as a dealer in Astrology, therefore could not excuse his ab¬ 
sence on his son’s anniversary from a hunting match Lord 
Berkshire had made, and to which the adjacent gentlemen were 
invited. When he went out, however, he took care to set the 
boy a double Latin exercise, which he taught his children him¬ 
self, with a very strict charge not to stir out of the room till 
his return, well knowing the task lie had sfet him would take up 
a longer time. Charles was carefully performing his duty in 
obedience to his father’s command, when as ill fate would have 
it, the stag made tow aids the house, and the noise alarming the 
servants, they all hastened out to see the sport, one of them took 
young Dryden by the hand, and led him out to see him also, 
when just as they came to the gate, the stag being at bay with 
the dogs, made a bold push and leaped over the court-w all, which 
was very low and also very old, and the dogs following, threw 
dawn part of the wall, ten yards in length, under which Charles 
Dryden lay buried. lie was immediately dug out, and after six 
weeks languishing in a dangerous state, he recovered. So fur 
Dryden’s prediction was fully verified. In the twenty-third year 
of his age, Charles fell from the top of an old tower belonging 


* Wc would here remark the folly of such predictions being 
made public; every precaution may be taken to prevent danger 
without exciting female fears or maternal solicitude.— Ed. 

b 3 



78 


TUB SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


to the Vatican at Rome, occasioned by a swimming of the head 
with which he was seized, the heat of the day being excessive' 

He again partly recovered, but was ever after in a languish¬ 
ing sickly state. In the thirty-third year of his age, being re¬ 
turned to England, he was unhappily drowned at Windsor. 

He had with another gentleman it seems swam twice over the 
Thames, but returning a third time, it was supposed he was 
taken with the cramp violently, because he called out, loudly for 
help, unfortunately too late. Thus the father’s Calculation 
proved but too prophetical. 


f N . 

PARADOXES. 


’Tis certainly a matter of fact, that several certain travellers 
went a journey, in which, though their heads travelled full 
yards more than their feet, yet they all returned alive, with their 
heads on. Query—How can this be accounted for? 

There is one certain place in the World where all the Planets, 
both inferior and superior, may be beheld constantly to move for¬ 
ward, in the same regular and uniform motion; though to most 
places of the Earth they appear at the same time to be stationary, 
retrograde, and to move very unequally. Query—What place 
is it ? 





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astrologer’s pocket COMPANION. 79 

PARTRIDGE'S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

(Continued from page 38,) 

EXTRACT III. 

2. Secondly , in the year 1642, he was preferred to the com¬ 
mand of a Colonel of Horse; having before, like an honest gen¬ 
tleman, and true Englishman, raised a troop of horse at his own 
charge, and served in his own person to defend his country 
against the then growing Popish interest, which like a deluge 
was like to overthrow all. He had then (says J. G.) the Moon 
directed to the Scorpion's heart, but whether with or without 
latitude, he hath not told us : but let it be which it will, it i^ 
wholly false; for the Moon’s pole of position in that place of his 
Figure is about 50; and her oblique ascension under the pole in 
the opposite point is about 350 deg. 18 min., so that the arch of 
direction with latitude is 37 deg. 28 min., and without latitude 
it is 45 deg. 14 min., whieh according to Naibod's measure of 
time, will give more than 45 years: and therefore neither of 
them came up in the year 1642, as he pretends. But suppose it 
did come up then, why must it give such a considerable, prefer¬ 
ment as a Colonel of Horse, which to him at that time was very 
great, both as to his command and trust reposed in him? Why 
should it not give trouble or sickness to him ; the death of his 
wife or mother (if he had one living) as well, or rather than 
give honour and preferment ? For in the Nativity of the French 
King, page 40, of his Collection, he gives him a violent fever on 
the direction of the ascendant to the Scorpion's hearty without 
any thing else to assist it, except a transit of ATarsoBthe Moon's 

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THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGB; OR, 

radical place. And in page 43, in the revolution of Guatavua 
the Second , it is there brought in as an argument of death ; the 
Sun and Saturn in conjunction near the Scorpion's heart , is there 
called violent because of the Antares. And in the Nativity of 
the Prince of Orange, page 54, it is there made use of to kill 
bis mother, and to give him a great deal of trouble; but to assist 
it, he tells us, that the M. C. came up then to the square of 
Saturn , which is notoriously false, for there was no such direc¬ 
tion at that time, or near it. Yet, after all this stuff &.\\A foolery, 
when he comes to Dr. Gouge's Nativity, page 107, he sends him 
to Cambridge , upon no other direction, but the Sun to the Scor¬ 
pion's heart , and nothing else to assist it. Thus you see what 
an excellent Astrologer Mr. J. G. is, and how obedient the 
Stars are to those who can skilfully command them; make them 
kill one, give another trouble, send a third to Cambridge , and 
make a fourth a Colonel of Horse. But if all he says were al¬ 
luded in the Protector’s case, it serves nothing at all to the cor¬ 
rection, nor to prove the time of his Figure true; for all men 
that know any thing of directions, know very well that this di¬ 
rection would have been nearly the same, had the time been taken 
later or earlier : but I wonder why J. G. should exclaim against 
Cromwell for sinking the oath of allegiance to his Sovereign, as 
he calls him, when that King had broke and sunk his Coronation 
oath long before; and we all remember very well who it was 
that did it since also, in the year 1G86 and 1687, to almost the 
Nation’s ruin, and destruction of the Protestant’s religion. 

3. Thirdly , in the year 1643, he \xsls mw\e Lieutenant-Gene¬ 
ral to the Earl oi Manchester; at which time, he says, he had 
the Moon directed to the trine of Mars; but this is also ex¬ 
tremely false, because there is no such direction as he pretends 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 
to, at this time; which any one may see by working those 
operations in which the arch without latitude, which is the only 
direction that he knows in that way is 48 deg 26 min. And the 
arch with latitude is almost 41 deg., both of which are far dis¬ 
tant from 1643, and cannot come up at that time he mentions, 
nor near it: but if it did, it cannot be correct without some 
other to agree with it to the angles. 

(To be continued.) 


TRANSLATION OF ARGOL’S APHORISMS. 
(Continued from page 67.) 

\ \ • *;y* A • *7 • \. ! } - 

Book II. Chapter I. 

The significators of life in a Nativity, and the lords of the as* 
Cendant of the geniture and decumbiture, afflicted in the decum- 
biture by the malefics denotes danger of death, unless they 
receive powerful help from the benefics. 

The Sun at the hour of the decumbiture, in a place of the Na¬ 
tivity that was afflicted by either malefic, by conjunction or other¬ 
wise, denotes great sickness, and frequently a long chronic dis¬ 
temper; and if he be in the decumbiture afflicted by the sable 
malefic, the evil is greater, and still more so if the Sun was 
apheta, and under an evil direction to the malefics. 

An eclipse happening in the ascendant either of the radix or 
revolution, threatens sickness for the year; and the same if a 


82 TITE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

comet appears: also if the eclipse be evil and governed by the 
malefic*, the greater the eclipse the greater the evil; and it iv 
frequently the same if the eclipse be celebrated in the places of 
directions of the ascendant, or luminaries to the malefics. That 
you will be sickly when there is a conjunction of Saturn and 
Mars celebrated in the ascendant of the gcniture, or of the revo¬ 
lution; if in the place of the apheta it will be extremely dange¬ 
rous, and the same if in square or opposition to the said places. 

The ascendant of the decumbiturc being in the place of a 
malefic in the radix denotes evil. 

The ascendant of the decumbiture being the sixth* seventh, 
eighth, or twelfth of the Nativity, is always evil. 

In the commencement of a disease the transit of either malefic 
over the place of the Horoscope at the Nativity, or of that lu¬ 
minary which was significator of life, is deadly; but not so much 
if the malefic beholds it by a square or opposition. 


CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GENERAL UTILITY OF 
ASTROLOGY. 

(Continued from page 14.) 

OF SATURN. 

Satbrn is the most powerful, and at the same time the most 
malignant of the Planets. Mr. Wilson seems to consider his ma¬ 
lefic influence as inferior to that of Mars, but we can by no 
means agree with this opinion: it is true, the effects of Mars 
may be more sudden, and consequently more remarkable, but at 
the same time they are neither so malevolent nor so lasting. 



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astrologer's pocket companion. 

Mars may be compared to a fever, violent indeed, but short io 
its duration: while Saturn resembles a consumption, which, 
though hardly perceptible in its progress, is not to be averted by 
any effort of human skill. 

In Nativities this Planet is most terrible and destructive. If 
placed in the mid-heaven, he causes ruin and disgrace, the per¬ 
son is unfortunate in almost every thing, and upon the direction 
of Saturn to the cusp is generally irretrievably ruined. There is 
scarcely any aspect, however powerful, can counteract this 
position. 

When in the fourth in opposition to this point, although cer¬ 
tainly weaker, he is very unfortunate. When placed in the as¬ 
cendant or seventh, the native is subject to falls, blows, or other 
accidents. If in conjunction or evil aspect with the principal 
significators of mind, the person will be melancholy and hypo- 
condriac, always fretting and repining, timorous and fearful, a 
great lover of solitude, penurious and niggardly, such characters 
hot unfrequently hide money, and other valuable property in the 
earth or secret places. Those individuals who are much undec 
the influence of Saturn, will generally be found to be very nerv¬ 
ous ; he is undoubtedly the cause of melancholy madness. 

The natives of Saturn are generally very malicious, firm in 
their friendship, and implacable in their enmities; close, thought¬ 
ful, and reserved, and without the assistance of Mars very 
bashful. 

It is always to be observed, whether Saturn is in aspect with 
other Planets: if in good aspect with Jupiter the evil is much 
diminished, although Jupiter himself is perhaps not much im¬ 
proved by the familiarity. 

If in conjunction or bad aspect with Mars, the disposition is 
extremely evil; to the cowardly revengeful disposition imparted 


i v 

S4 T1IE SPIRIT 6f rARTRlDGE; Oft, 

by Saturn is added a portion of courage, which often leads to 
the most dreadful enterprises. If in good aspect to the lumina¬ 
ries or Mercury, he gives much of prudence and subtlety; it i« 
said the native will be curious about trifling frivolous matters, 
this opinion so far as our experience goes, is not well-founded, 
for he will in general be too cautious and circumspect to engage 
in such speculations. Such persons seldom change their situa¬ 
tions in life, but their whole conduct evinces much permanency 
and stability. In Horary Questions Saturn rules Aquarius-by 
day, and Capricorn by night; he also governs the airy triplicity 
by night; his exaltation is Libra, his fall in Aries, his detriment 
in Cancer and Leo. 

The* querent will be most successful in dealing with aged 
persons, and in mining and agricultural speculations. 

If well dignified, the person signified by him is acute, grave, 
and circumspect; fond of money, and very laborious, and pa¬ 
tient in his endeavours to acquire it; long in forming an opinion, 
(which when once decided is generally pretty correct), and ob¬ 
stinate in maintaining it. 

If ill dignified he is sordid, jealous and mistrustful, cowardly 
and deceitful, envious, covetous, without natural affection, mise¬ 
rable, wretched, and universally despised. 

He personates one of a middle stature, small eyes, and mali¬ 
cious unpleasant look; bushy eyebrows, flat nose, thick lips; 
black, lank, greasy hair, and spare body. The form of body is 
materially altered according to the position of Saturn in the 


* The querent is the person who asks a question; the quesited 
is the person or thing enquired about. 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 85 

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different signs, which w ill be given in the next Number. The 
astrological reader will be surprised to perceive that we give the 
description of person as appertaining only to Horary Questions. 
W e are well aware that the opinion of almost every astrological 
author is against us, but w e say, from a long and rigorous exa¬ 
mination, that it is impossible to define the form of the body from 
the Nativity. In Horary Questions, the agreement of the que¬ 
rent’s person with the form indicated by the planets is a symbol 
that the question is radical. In Nativities it is evident that the 
features must be formed long before the infant is brought into 
existence, and we believe the countenance is principally formed 
by the imagination of the mother. The “ Straggler” goes so far 
as to assert, he was enabled to arrive at certain conclusions re¬ 
specting the birth, and some of the leading circumstances of the 
life of a stranger by the peculiar traits of his face. We are 
very certain, he or any one else is totally unable to give any thing 
like a correct personal description by the inspection of the 
Nativity. 


(To be continued.) 





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the spirit of partridge ; or, 


^POETICAL DIALOGUES. 


Scene —The Shades below. 
Present the Ghosts of Hermes, Ptolemy, Mere 


Enter the Spirit of Partridge. 
Ghost of Merlin. 

Thrice welcome brother Partridge hither, now 
Our noble ^fame shall flourish, and we throw 
Defiance at the base born slanderer; 

’Tis disgrace that, in the land of learning too, 
As rankest weeds spring forth the richest soil, 
Our fame should be insulted thus: 

No more! 

Spirit of Partridge. 

Complain, we have alarmed the camp, and ere 
Three Moons have run their course, thy name 
Shall still be worthy, for erased that spot 
That blink-eyed ignorance impressed, it shall 
Sliine forth escap’d from this eclipse. 

Hermes. 

’Tis well. 

^nd Merlin know it is the fate of all 
The good, and great to have their plumes fall off, 
Despoiled by daws of pert pretence. The earth 
Teems with ignorance, and like the stream 





ASTftOLOGEll’s POCKET COMPANION. 87 

Of father Nile, this filth must overflow, and leave 
Its sediment. The limpid stream runs on, 

And bears each precious pearl along, its sound 
Is, like the distant breeze, scarce heard, or zephyrs 
Breath that starts the timid hind, who looks and 
Sleeps anon ; the tide of ignorance is loud. 

The Ghost of Merlin. 

The name of Merlin once was bright, and shone 
In its own light; the beams of Jupiter 
Had joined in happy trine with sol, and lent 

* 

Their aid to mark the honoured age when rose 
The fame of Merlin’s genius. Now, alas ! 

Eclipsed by Saturn, leaden dullness reigns, 

And some base scion of an unknown stock 
Assumes the royal name. 

Spirit of Partridge. 

I come to crush 
The evil in its bud, to shew forth all the ill 
Degenerate minds untaught put forth, and tell 
The world that Science, mocked by emperics, 

Is naught; a waning Moon, or Star combust 
And overpowered within the solar beam; 

But, fanned by genius, ’tis the Sun himself 
Attaining the mid-heaven, and must dispel 
The rolling mists of ignorance. 

Shade of Ptolemy. 

’Tis well. 

[Exeunt omnes. 


I 



S8 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE, ETC. 

TO THE EDITOR. 


Sir, 

Observing a curious remark in the Correspondence of the 
last Number of the “ Straggler,” and being distrustful of my 
own knowledge, I trespass on your kindness for the removal- of 
my doubts. In answer to a Correspondent, the “ Straggler” re¬ 
plies, “ the Ascendant is the true hyleg in that geniture; the 
Sun having passed the middle of the 11th House, by the space 
of three muudane degrees, which incapacitates that Planet from 
the office of prorogator.” Now for my own part, I always con¬ 
sidered this was the very thing which entitled the Sun to that 
office. Waiting your answer, 

I remain your obedient Servant, 

P. MELANCTHON. 


TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

We beg leave to inform our Readers that we are promised 
the Nativity of the late John Thurtell, which we have no doubt 
will be highly interesting to them. 

“ P. Melancthon” is perfectly right, and the “ Straggler” 

completely wrong. We would advise the latter to consult the 

new translation of Placidus, aud hewill there find a few things 
- \ ® 
of'which he is at present totally ignorant. 

The Query of “ Ptolemy, Jun.” will be attended to in a future 
Number. 

“ A Constant Subscriber” and “ Q. L.” are received, but too 
late for this Number; they may depend upon our earliest atten¬ 
tion. 

All communications to the Editor, to be addressed to Messrs. 
Davis and Dickson, St. Martin’s-le-Grand, post-paid 






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We have this week to present our readers with the Nativity Of 
the self-styled Doctor Sibly, copied from the manuscript of our 
late respected friend Mr. Wright, Westminster Road, Lambeth. 
It appears to have been originally intended by Mr. Wright for 
publication ; but we have never yet seen it in any astrological 
work, and we have no doubt our readers will feel highly gratified 
by the perusal, both from the extraordinary character of Sibly, and 
the well known skill of Mr. W. 

DR. SIBLY’S NATIVITY. 

I have long been of opinion, that if a collection of nativities 
remarkable for denoting extraordinary advancement or particular 
depression from the state of birth, or a share of intellect consider¬ 
ably above or below mediocrity, was selected, and the effect judi¬ 
ciously traced to its cause, it would more forcibly prove the verity 
of starry influence than all the powers of logic and rhetoric. 

Influenced by this idea, I have given the Nativity of Dr. Sibly ; 
and, as the time of his birth was published by himself (from which 
I have not deviated one minute), it cannot be said that I have 
altered the time to make the cause correspond with the effect. It 
requires but a slight knowledge of planetary influence to discover 
a chequered and eventful life from such configurations, the pla¬ 
nets being not only in masculine signs, but most of them angular; 
and the Sun, \ghich is in the mid-heaven, is nearly conjoined or 
configurated with them all, which evidently denotes some degree 
of advancement, fame, and dignity ; or, at least, a public name, 
from Mercury, conjoined to Venus, ascending to the Sun in an v 
angle. Yet, on the other hand, not one of the planets, except 
liffeircury, is essentially strong, and he is retrograde; and Saturn, 
who is ruler of the tenth, and also depositor of the Sun, Venus, 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


91 


and Mercury, is conjoined with Mars near the part of Fortune, 
and in opposition to the ascendant, and, of course, in mundane 
square to the mid-heaven, which clearly indicates frequent em¬ 
barrassment, severe misfortunes, disappointments, and numerous 
enemies : and this position of the two infortunes must have sub¬ 
jected the native to the gravel, or a rupture, or some such latent 
disorder. And being so near the cusp of the seventh, they are 
allowed to stir up enemies, and occasion infelicity in marriage $ 
but I consider the Moon in opposition to the Sun, Venus, and 
Mercury, more clearly and properly to signify the latter $ and that 
many planets in square or opposition to the luminaries’ ascendant 
or mid-heaven, particularly if they are infortunes, have always 
signification of enemies, or persons who, by accident or natural 
antipathy, would oppose the native’s views and interest. That 
he had many such I am well convinced; and as to his felicity in 
marriage, he had two or three wives alive at one time, though he 
lived with neither of them. In respect to his genius and abilities, 
as deducible from the figure of birth, we find Mercury in Aquarius, 
assisted by the presence of Venus; and his position in this sign 
generally gives a good understanding, and a curious, scientific turn 
of mind $ and the Moon with the declination of Jupiter, and 
Mercury in zodiacal parallel, or having the same declination with 
both (though of a contrary denomination), must greatly help the 
qualities of the mind ; but, on the other hand, Mercury disposed 
of by Saturn, who is in conjunction with Mars, is, according to 
Ptolemy, Book iii, Chap. 18, a considerable drawback upon their 
good signification, and being at the same time retrograde, in oppo 
sition to the Moon, who is also near Cor Leonis, disposed of by 
the Sun in his detriment; from the whole of which, considered 
together, it is not difficult to discover a lofty, aspiring disposition, 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


ambitious of fame beyond his ability to acquire it, and fond of show 
and grandeur above his means of supporting it; for though Mer¬ 
cury his significator is in Aquarius, yet being above the earth, re¬ 
trograde, and together with the Sun in opposition to the Moon, 
would evidently tend to instil too much Solar Tincture into hrs 
composition, to form a close or deep student, or such as the sub¬ 
jects he treated of required. However defective and erroneous 
his Illustration of Astrology appears, it certainly produced several 
new advocates and votaries of the science; and his publication of 
Placidus, though also incorrect, was of considerable advantage to 
the promotion of astral knowledge. 

In giving my opinion of the Astrological cause of his death, I am 
well aware that I shall differ from many who are unacquainted 
with the power of mundane aspects, or the efficacy of semiquar- 
tiles and sesquiquadrates; but to such I must observe, that if more 
than seventeen years pretty close application to this study will 
justify me in passing my opinion, I should say that mundane con¬ 
figurations have at least equal if not greater power than zodiacal; 
and as to the semiquartile or aspect of 45°, and the sesquiquad- 
rate of 155°, a very able artist, Mr. John Harris, who left England 
for America in 1799, and has left but few in this country to equal 
him, assured me repeatedly, that in thirty years he found them 
nearly as powerful as the quartile, particularly the sesquiquadrate, 
which he sometimes thought exceeded the square in power. 
However, I shall not insist upon their efficacy to this extent j but 
from a great deal of experience, I believe that whoever ventures 
to predict the events throughout life without taking them into 
the catalogue, will find himself frequently at a loss. 

There are various methods of computing the part of fortune ; 
but I have placed it in this nativity (as directed by Whalley in his 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 93 

commentary on the quadripartite) by taking the distance in the 
equator between the horary circle of the Sun and Moon, from the 
oblique ascension of the ascendant, which being 180°, must of 
course bring it on the cusp of the seventh house. The Sun is 
hileg without doubt, and must be chiefly observed for the cause 
an«J time of death : yet where every one of the aphetic places are 
afflicted at the same time with evil directions, it must be allowed 
that a long train of malefic directions immediately to the hyleg is 
not necessary to destroy life, particularly where there is not a 
single benefic ray to assist, and where the malefics are radically 
posited, so as to threaten destruction as soon as they were 
brought into action by the motion of direction. 

He died Oct. 30, 1799, about 1 o’clock, P.M., and whoever 
takes the trouble to calculate will find that about the age of forty- 
eight years and seven months, the Sun arrived, by direct direction, 
to the sesquiquadrate of Mars in mundo, and had just before 
passed the semiquartile of the same planet by converse motion, 
and was near the same aspect to Saturn. In short, the following 
train of mundane directions came up within four years of each 
other, and most of them at the exact time of his death, nor was 
there a single benefic direction to afford the least assistance. 

© Semiquartile of Mars converse motion ; 

© Sesquiquadrate Mars direct motion ; 

© Semiquartile Saturn converse motion ; 

© Trine of Mars in zodiac ; 

(£ Semiquartile of Mars direct; 

(£ Sesquiquadrate Mars converse $ 

(£ Sesquiquadrate Saturn converse ; 

Ascendant to Sesquiquadrate of © ; 

Ascendant to semiquartile of (£ ; 

0 Semiquartile of ©; 

0 Sesquiquadrate of the <£. 


94 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 

PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[ Continued from page 81. ] 

EXTRACT IV. 

4. Fourthly , He tells us that he quarrelled with the Earl of 
Manchester, his general, and preferred divers informations against 
him in Parliament; and managed it so well, that he carried his 
point, and came off with honour: the cause of this was (he says) 
Saturn being on his ascendant, and the radical place of Mars in op¬ 
position to his own, and the ascendant directed to the terms of 
Mars. Certainly this man was infatuated when he wrote this non¬ 
sense ; for I have more charity for him than to think he had so 
little skill or sense to believe this, and not know better; but tell 
us of a transit of Saturn by Mars’s radical place in opposition to 
his own. Why, what was this to Cromwell ? Why did not (if 
this is true) Saturn do him a mischief the last year, when he got 
his lieutenant-general’s commission? for he was then stationary 
on the radical place of Mars, and no harm observed. Well; but 
the ascendant was also afflicted by direction : How so ? Why it 
came to the terms of Mars. Aye, this is something like to do the 
feat. Did ever any soul hear an infallible son of an infallible 
church give such reasons as these are ? In the last year he says the 
Moon to the trine of Mars gave him preferment: and is this direc¬ 
tion so soon over ? Will it not continue in force one year ? And 
if it doth, pray why should the terms of Mars be alledged as an 
injury to him, and he under a good martial direction ? Why should 
not the trine of Mars give the contest (if there was such a direc¬ 
tion at that time as he says there was) more likely than the terms 
of Mars, it ending in his advantage and honour? which cannot be 
allowed such an affliction as he seems to insinuate by the transit 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 96 

®f Saturn. But why must the ascendant to the terms of Mars be 
brought in now as a cause of difference? Doth it always give 
quarrels and contests ? Did it also give quarrels, contests, and dif¬ 
ference, when the ascendant came to the beginning of Cancer, 
which was the terms of Mars also, which was two or three years af¬ 
terwards ? I doubt it; and I think it would be worth while to ask 
the gentleman if i t did not fall in pitted and smoaky degrees; if 
so, then it is beyond all question and doubt; but the truth of 
all is, there was nothing else to sham in at this time, and therefore 
this must do: yet I do think there is no man will look upon this 
as a good reason and argument to prove the nativity true. 

5. Fifthly , In 1645 he says Oliver Cromwell was made lieute¬ 
nant-general to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and this under the direction 
of the Moon to the Sextile of Saturn, lord of the tenth house $ 
and, indeed, it was well he was lord of the tenth, or else he had 
certainly lost his honour and preferment at that time: however, 
that is also false; there was no such direction at that time, and 
that for the reasons before mentioned. 

6. Sixthly , In 1648, for his contending with the Parliament, and 
some other things, he says he had his Sun to the square of Saturn, 
and the part of Fortune to the opposition of Venus. As for that 
of Venus, 1 am sure ’tis false, for he is not able either to take or 
direct the part of Fortune; and what is more, if the part of For¬ 
tune were truly placed in the figure, it should be in eleven or 
twelve degrees of Leo •, and he hath made it in one-and-twenty ; 
and for that direction of Saturn, if it should be true, it doth not at 
all help to the correction. 

T. Seventhly , In 1649, he went over to Ireland to oppose the 
popish rebels in that nation, and defend the protestant religion ; 
and as Gadbury says, he had a flux and fever there ; for these things 


91 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE^ OR, 

he gives the Moon to her own square, and the contra antiscion of 
Jupiter: alas, poor man! he never yet knew how to take the 
antiscion or a zodiacal parallel, which you please; and I will ven¬ 
ture an even wager of what he will, that he doth not know how to 
direct the Moon either to an antiscion or contra.antiscion of any 
planet, so great is his confidence and ignorance in pretending to a 
thing he understands not. And furthermore, had the Moon been 
so directed at that time, as he says she was to those two directions, 

I am certain he would have had neither flux nor fever at that time, 
if Ptolemy says true; but you must bear with his ignorance, for if 
he knew better he would do better. 

8. Eighthly , In 1650 and 1651, he beat the Scots at Dunbar, and 
the cavaliers at Worcester to their hearts content; for this he gives 
him the Sun to his own sextile; but how doth he make it do I can¬ 
not tell, for the arch of direction is 53° 46', and gives about 54 
years, and he was now but 51 or 52 years of age, which is a great 
difference in point of time ; but he doth not tell you one word of 
the Sun to the square of Mars and Saturn, nor their effects, one of 
which happened at 48 years of age, and the other at 51 ; and 
though he could not tell what they gave, yet he might have told us 
what the reason was that they did not kill or leastwise give sick¬ 
ness, as well as the Moon to the contra-antiscion of Jupiter and her 
own square, or why the Sun, to the square of Saturn or Mars, 
should not give loss of honour and damage to reputation, as well 
as the M.C. to the dragon’s head gave the greatest of honour; but 
these, I suppose, are nostrums lodged in his own carcase, and are 
not to be made known till the publication of his body of tautology, 
at a more convenient time. Now, if this nativity that he hath 
printed were true, then the Sun is positively giver of life, which if 
so* he hath (according to Ptolemy,) not only the principal govern,-. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


97 


ment of honour and grandeur, but of health, sickness, life, and 
death ; and therefore it is the greatest wonder to me, that under 
two such directions there should be no effect attend him either of 
sickness or scandal; but these are small things with honest John. 

9. Ninthly , In 1053, in December, he was proclaimed Protector 
of England : he had now the Sun directed to the body of Jupiter, 
sextile of the Moon, and the part ofFortune to the sextile ofVenus; 
those directions, I confess, are probable of such an effect, and the 
former comes too at the time he says it doth ; but the last of the 
three he knows nothing of it. 

10. Tenthly , In 1654 he concluded a peace with France, and 
makes a league with Sweden ; and for that, Gadbury says he had 
the part of Fortune to the trine of Mars ; but that cannot be al¬ 
lowed, for if he had lived twenty years longer than he did, that 
direction would not have come up, so improbable a direction that 
is to be alledged for this time ; but alas ! poor man, *tis his want 
of skill. 

11. Eleventhly , In 1656 he called a Parliament, and they de¬ 
sired him to take upon him the title of King, which he refused : 
for this he had (as Gadb. says) the part ofFortune to the sextile 
of Saturn, lord of the tenth. I have little occasion to say any 
thing more to this, because I told you before, that he can neither 
take nor direct that point. 

12. Twelfthly , In 1657 he sent six thousand men over into 
Flanders, under the command of Sir John Reynolds, by whose 
means he became master of Dunkirk : he had then the Sun di¬ 
rected to the sextile of Mercury; and why should not this sextile 
of Mercury (being in signs of Long Ascension) be equal to a square ? 
if so, why should it give any good at all ? But let it be the one or 

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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


the other, this, as well as the rest, can by no means serve to prove 
the figure true, which is the thing he aims at. 

13. Thirteenthly , In the year 1658, on the 3d of September, this 
great general and statesman dies of an intermitting fever at first, 
but afterward continual; which Gadbury tells us was caused by 
the Ascendant (who is, says he, in this nativity, giver of life) di¬ 
rected to the square of Mars in Cancer, his fall, the Sun to the head 
of Hercules, and the part of Fortune to the square of the Moon. 
As for this last (of the part of Fortune to the square of the Moon), 
that cannot be directed to the aspects in the zodiac, because often¬ 
times that doth not move in it, nor he knows of no other way of 
directing. And for the Sun to the head of Hercules, *tis a small 
star of the second magnitude, in eighteen degrees of Cancer, and 
almost seven degrees of north latitude; but he directs it here 
without latitude : if this hath any force to kill without latitude, 
why did not the Sun to that star with latitude kill, it coming up 
with the square of Saturn and the part of Fortune to the opposition 
of Venus in the year 1648? For it would be more able to kill 
when the Sun was afflicted by two violent promittors, than by one, 
and the rather, if the Sun should prove hileg, as I believe you will 
find it in the figure of his making : and here, by the way, I must 
take the liberty to question this trifling gentleman how he proves the 
ascendant to be giver of life ? for in his borrowed rules in the Doct. of 
Nat. he tells us that the Sun in the ascendant ishyleg, and 1 hope 
he will not make two aphetas in one nativity ; and also Origanus 
in Introduct. part 3, cap. 2, preacheth the very same doctrine ; so 
doth Argol, Pezelius, Ranzou, and all the rest of our authors, but 
above all the great Ptolemy in his Quadripartitum, lib. 3, cap. 11, 
and cap. 13, where he is particular and very positive, when he 
says, cum autem quirimus in his locis potentissimumy primus erit me - 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 


99 


ditim celiy deinde Horoscopusy &c. so that you see the Horoscope is 
one of the chiefest prorogatory places; and yet this worthy gentle¬ 
man, contrary to the rules printed by himself, and all our antient 
authors, rejects the Sun in the middle of the ascendant, and con¬ 
fidently or ignorantly tells us, that the ascendant is giver of life, or 
hileg, and this for no,other reason (as I can see) but to give coun¬ 
tenance and credit to his own erroneous practices, and to lead (like 
Jack wiih a lanthorn) other men out of their way, into these bogs 
<rf error. In short, I do affirm, that the Sun within five degrees of 
the cusp of the second, or rather, to speak in Ptolemy’s terms and 
meaning, within the compass of his double horary times there, lie 
is to be accepted for giver of life, provided the Moon is not in an 
aphetical place above the earth, or the part of Fortune, and quali¬ 
fied for that power ; but in this figure of his, the Sun is beyond all 
doubt giver of life, he being in the very middle of the house, and 
having there no competitor : hence that which Gadbury asserts in 
this case is a palpable falsehood, which might have been excused 
in a novice, but in an old bell-weather it ought to be reproved, and 
that sharply too : but let it go how it will, it was a credit for Crom¬ 
well that his foes could find nothing to kill him but the head of 
Hercules, joined with a fictious direction, and that is, the ascend¬ 
ant to the square of Mars, which in reality could not come up be- 
fore ninety years of age or thereabouts. 


[To be continued.] 


100 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


OBSERVATIONS ON THE MOON’S APPLICATION AND 
SEPARATION FROM THE DIFFERENT PLANETS. 


By J. Angeltjs and Regiomontanus : compiled at Venice in the 
\btk Century . 


If the Moon apply or be carried to Saturn and increase in light* 
it signifies widowhood to the mother, destruction of the estate, and 
much misfortune. 

If the Moon increase in light and apply to Jupiter or be joined 
to him, it signifies rich, faithful, honest, and happy persons; if 
Mars do not behold her by a square or opposition otherwise, it sig¬ 
nifies much misery and unhappiness. 

If the Moon increasing apply to Mars or be joined to him in a 
nocturnal geniture, it signifies crafty, violent, dangerous persons, 
often subject to be deceived: by day, weak feeble bodies, subject 
to diseases about the eyes and stomach, and to die a violent 
death. 

If the Moon be carried to the Sun or be joined to him, what 
part of the scheme soever it be in, it signifies miserable persons, 
always unfortunate, afflicted daily with sickness. 

If the Moon be carried to Venus, and Venus partilely receive 
the beams of the approaching Moon, and if the Moon increasing 
apply herself to the conjunction of Venus, it signifies noble pa¬ 
rents, but the native to Ije separated from their affection ; but they 
are well known, noble, full of grace and honesty, and in process of 
time gaining increase of estate : but if the Moon decreasing apply 
so to Venus, she signifies power and happiness in youth, but to 


ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPANION. 


101 


be scandalised with daily reports, unchaste, lustful, and burning 
in lust towards women, especially if Mars behold her by a square, 
and these evils are the greater if the Moon and Venus be in the 
house of Saturn or Mars without the testimony of Jupiter. 

If the Moon separate from Saturn and apply to Jupiter, it sig¬ 
nifies rich, wealthy, happy persons. The full Moon separating 
from Saturn and applying to Mars, signifies much sickness and 
infirmity, and the native to die in his youth. 

If the Moon separate from Saturn and apply to the Sun, it is 
very unfortunate, and signifies many calamities, madness, luna- 
ticks, dropsies, and the like. The Moon separating from Saturn 
and applying to Venus, signifies noble, happy, rich, and wealthy 
persons, but libidinous, and thereby to suffer infamy : if the Moon 
decrease in light, it denotes the native to covet unlawful loves, im¬ 
pure and immodest lusts, but nevertheless seeking after and gaining 
an estate and riches. 

If the Moon separate from Saturn and apply to Mercury and be 
increasing, she signifies obscure persons, guilty of writing unlaw¬ 
ful letters, studying celestial sciences and liberal arts, good orators 
and physicians ; but if the Moon decrease in light, she impedites 
the speech or hearing, the body is sickly, subject to the spleen, 
melancholy, coughs, dropsies, and daily griefs of the cholic. 


[To be continued]. 


102 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE , OR, 


ANECDOTE OF STRAGGLING ASTROLOGY. 


Mr. Editor, 

Having met with some information from your miscellany, and 
considerable amusement, I should be happy to contribute my mite 
of this latter quality for the entertainment of your readers. If com¬ 
patible with your arrangements, you will, perhaps, favour me with 
inserting the following curious anecdote of a straggling and pre¬ 
tended Astrologer :— 

A few days since I was passing a leisure hour in the shop of a 
rfsspectable bookseller in the city, when a gaunt figure entered in 
female attire, and with a cast of countenance such as my imagina¬ 
tion has depicted the witch of Endor to have had, and in a sepul¬ 
chral tone and with a solemn air, requested my friend W. to ac¬ 
commodate her with a work of Grecian lore. Not feeling quite at 
home with this strange and mysterious being, the man of books 
hastened to appease the latent anger which he thought he observed 
in the keen black eye of the female at his hesitation to accomplish 
her command, by reaching down a huge quarto of learning, 
which, after carefully restoring to its original brightness, which the 
unhallowed breath of the earth, vulgarly termed dust, had some¬ 
what diminished, and resting its massy form on a stout oak desk, 
my friend threw open for the brown lady’s perusal. The sombre 
tint of her Norwood skin, like the growing darkness of a heavy 
cloud when thunder fills the skies, assumed, as Ossian says, a 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 


103 


darker shade; when, scornfully putting the Iliad from her, she de¬ 
manded one more learned still. Not being prepared to dispute the 
question of Homer’s claim to that title, my friend handed another 
and another still,” but still the sybil wished another, till the man 
of trade thought it better to put in a word of his own, and proposed 
a Latin book; this the lady acquiesced in, but still seemed dis¬ 
pleased on perusing it, and demanded in a louder tone, “ Have 
you none with figures in ?” Oh ! yes, a variety, quoth W., and 
speedily brought forward Euclid in the original, with all the mere¬ 
tricious aid of ornament ; but as far as ever from the point desired, 
our bookseller ventured to solicit the favour of some further expla¬ 
nation as to the wishes of this descendant of the chief Priestess of 
Egypt, when with a voice of savage sound she exclaimed, “ Why, 
<1-n ye ! I want one to gull the flats 1” 

I remain, Sir, 

Your obedient Servant, 

NO FRIEND TO STRAGGLING ASTROLOGERS. 


■■ 



104 


-THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 85.] 

The Form of Body given by Saturn in the 
twelve Signs. 

Saturn in Aries describes one of a middle stature, ruddy com¬ 
plexion ; spare, large boned ; loud, deep voice ; dark hair, little 
beard, and large eyes; boasting, quarrelsome, and contentious. 

Saturn in Taurus gives a dark complexion, rough skin, middle 
stature, and dark hair: a heavy, unpleasant person, very dissi¬ 
pated and unfortunate. 

Saturn in Gemini represents one of a moderately tall stature, 
oval visage, dark brown or black hair, dark complexion, ingenious, 
unfortunate, and perverse. 

Saturn in Cancer represents one of a thin, middling stature; 
weak, sickly constitution ; ill-shaped, morose and jealous, very 
deceitful in his dealings. 

Saturn in Leo makes the stature moderately large, the shoulders 
are broad and strong, the hair brown, the aspect surly and austere, 
the bones large and the body lean, the eyes sunken and bent down¬ 
ward In this sign Saturn assumes the appearance of good, unless 
evilly aspected by Mars; for he gives, at least, a show of genero- 
sity, nobleness, and tolerable good nature. The person is passion¬ 
ate and revengeful; but, though apparently courageous and 
valiant, when put to it his courage generally vanishes, and he 
proves a mere pretender. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


105 


Saturn in Virgo gives a tall, spare body, a swarthy complexion, 
dark brOwn or black hair, a long head, and solid austere counte¬ 
nance, but generally unfortunate, inclined to melancholy, re¬ 
taining anger long: a projector of many curiosities to little pur¬ 
pose ; and, if not well aspected by Jupiter, too much addicted to 
pilfering and indirect dealings. 

Saturn in Libra gives a tall person, rather handsome, brown or 
auburn hair, oval face, and prominent nose and forehead: proud, 
extravagant, and contentious, fond of argument, for which he is 
well qualified. 

Saturn in Scorpio represents a person below the middle stature; 
thick, well set, and strong body, with broad shoulders and chest: 
a very mischievous, evil, and malicious disposition. 

Saturn in Sagittarius gives a large body, brown hair, well made,-* 
and rather handsome. The person so described is reserved, yet 
affable and obliging ; very charitable and generous, and, though 
he will not take an affront from any one, is merciful even to an 
enemy. 

Saturn in Capricorn gives a thin person, of low stature, rough 
skin, dark complexion, small eyes, and long visage. He is me¬ 
lancholy, peevish, mistrustful, and avaricious; of few words and 
great gravity. 

Saturn in Aquarius gives a middle stature, large head and face, 
rather corpulent, hair dark brown, approaching to black; the 
manner of behaviour sober and graceful, and the address affable 
and courteous. As his fancy is inventive and persevering, it is 
seldom the querent fails in his researches ; and in whatever art 
or science he labours to obtain, he generally becomes a proficient; 
and though vain of his abilities, yet, as his genius is indubitable, 
this pride is not unbecoming. 


106 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 


Saturn in Pisces gives a stature below mediocrity, seldom above 
it; the countenance is pale, and the hair nearly black; the head 
is large, and the eye full: inclined to dissimulation, contentious 
and malicious, very tickle and uncertain, and, though plausible in 
appearance, fraudulent and deceitful in the end. 


JUPITER. 

Jupiter is the largest, and, next to Saturn, the most powerful 
planet in our system. Those persons in whose nativities he is 
roost powerful are generous, open, and sincere, neither practising 
fraud themselves, nor suspecting it in others ; above any mean or 
unworthy action: their carriage is manly and noble, far removed 
from the sheepish stupidity of Saturn, or the impudent forward¬ 
ness of Mars. They are scrupulously honest, firm friends, and 
generous enemies ; religious, kind, and charitable. 

If in conjunction or bad aspect of Saturn, the disposition is very 
remarkably altered: the native is profligate, careless, and irreli¬ 
gious ; very fretful and peevish, foolish and extravagant. 

If Jupiter aspect the luminaries, or be placed in the ascendant, 
he gives a sound, healthy constitution, capable of resisting very 
evil directions. When posited in the mid-heaven, he confers oa 
the nobility great honour and dignity j on merchants, success in 
trade and speculations. 

In horary questions he describes one of a tall, majestic stature, 
high forehead, large grey eyes, soft brown hair, well made, robust 
body, short neck, strong legs and thighs, and long feet. 

He rules Sagittarius by day, and Pisces by night; that is, if in a 
horary question Sagittarius should be placed on the cusp of the 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


107 


first house, Jupiter would then be said to be lord or ruler of the 
ascendant. 

His exaltation is in Cancer, his fall in Capricorn: he is in detri¬ 
ment in Gemini and Virgo; he governs the fiery triplicity by 
night, If well dignified, the querent is respectable, fortunate, and 
prudent, fair in his dealings, and just in all bis actions. If ill 
dignified, the person is dull, hypocritical, mean, and very conceit¬ 
ed, a sycophant to his superiors, and a tyrant to his dependants. 

[To be continued.] 


ERRATA. 


For Vf, No. IV, p. 69, on the cusp of the twelfth, read 
For $ in the third, read Q . 

Page 72, line 6, instead of “4th is the 10th,” read 4th and 10th. 
Page 72, line 6, instead of “ T is read <y> and -a. 

Page 72, line 10, for “ <W ’ read ft. 

Page 72, line 29, for “ fl£,” read 1T[. 

Page 82, omit lines 17 and 18, and ready Observations on the 
Nature of the Planets. 

Page 84, line 11, for “ night” read day. 

Page 86, second speech, instead of “ No more ! Spirit of Par¬ 
tridge ,” read Spirit o/Partridge f No more complain. 

Page 83, line 23, for “ friendship,” read friendships. 



108 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE* &C. 


Query, by a Correspondent.—In a Nativity where $ was exactly 
on the mid-heaven, what effect will she produce when she comes 
by direction to the of the ascendant in the zodiac ? 

Note .— ? was in mundane □ to ^, who was on the cusp of 
the ascendant. 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


PARTRIDGE'S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[ Continued from page 99. ] 

EXTRACT V. 

But the main direction that Mr. John lays all the stress of the 
matter upon, is the ascendant to the square of Mars in the zodiac, 
which is (to say the truth) no direction at all; for you may as 
well direct the ascendant to the antiscion of any planet, as to an 
aspect in the zodiac, they being both impossible to be done by 
any one, John excepted. But suppose it were allowable, and 
that there was such a direction in nature, as he there tells us there 
is, yet that direction could not kill; for if he pleaseth but to read 
Ptolemy, lib. iii, cap. 13, Quadripartite, he there tells us, That 
if the rays of Jupiter or Venus fall within eight or twelve degrees 
after a malefic direction, that direction cannot kill. Now in this 
case here is but one malefic direction to the ascendant, and that 
is the square of Mars, which is succeeded by the ascendant to the 
sextile of the Sun, the body of Jupiter, sextile of the Moon, and 
sextile of Mercury, and they all nearly in aspect to Jupiter, and 
for that reason partakers of his nature in a great measure ; there¬ 
fore, how this body of directions should (contrary to all good and 
authentic rules) kill, seems to me a mystery ; and what is more, 
that he should die of such a disease as an intermitting fever, or 
poison ; for it is not Mars, but the Sun and Jupiter, that do speci¬ 
ficate the disease; and how they two should kill, but especially 
after that manner, I hope my friend John will explain in his 
twenty years promised body of tautology, when he thinks conve¬ 
nient to print it; and also in that book to give us full direction for 


astrologer’s pocket companion. Ill 

the understanding his pitted, azimine, and smoaky degrees; which, 
perhaps, may have a great hand in killing this gentleman, though 
he hath not mentioned it, nor do we understand it, which is worse. 
But seeing Astrology is allowed and owned by some of the most 
learned, to be a bundle of experience improved into rules by con¬ 
tinued observations of those accidents and effects that did always 
attend different directions and positions, hence it then follows, 
that like causes must always have like effects, or else rules of ex¬ 
ception laid down to know when they shall and when they shall 
not, give those common effects that they all tell us of: for if the 
Ascendant, Sun or Moon to the body, Square or Opposition of 
Saturn or Mars, shall kill in two or three cases, and miss in ten or 
twelve, it leaves Astrology an idle, foolish, and reproachful study, 
being uncertain and vain, and therefore not to be studied or de¬ 
fended by any but men of a reputation equal to itself: for if the 
Ascendant to the square of Mars, in this pretended nativity of the 
Lord Protector, should kill when the body of Jupiter, Sextile of 
the Sun and Moon, &c. are so near, then I do affirm that nothing 
can hinder it at any time, but it always must certainly kill; which 
if true, then pray observe what follows, taken out of that learned 
'Treatise called Collective Genitura , a book full of contradictions and 
errors, as to the principles and truths of astrology, which I shall 
more fully detect hereafter, but give you a glimpse of it now, to 
show you what sort of a man he is, that pretends to be the leader 
and top man of the Society of Astrologers in England, and how he 
and his notions ought to be believed 

1. First then; In the Nativity of Queen Mary, page 11, the 
Ascendant to the Square of Mars did not kill, though it was assist¬ 
ed by the bodies of Mercury and the Sun, and they both malefic 
and peregrine; nor did the square of Saturn afterwards kill her. 


112 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

2. In the Nativities of Ann, Queen of Hungary, page 28, Lewis 
XIII, King of France, page 34, and Charles Gustavus, King of 
Sweden, p. 35, he lets these three outlive the Ascendant to the 
body of Mars, which undoubtedly must be more violent than the 
square; and in two of the three it came up young. 

In the case of Frederick, King of Denmark, page 3T, it did not 
kill, though it fell near the Lion’s heart. 

3. In the Nativity of the Earl of Essex, page 45, we have a most 
admirable instance ; for there, the Ascendant to the squares of the 
Sun, the Moon, and Mars, altogether, had not power nor strength 
enough to kill, and yet no assistance from Jupiter and Venus to 
help or save : when you see in the last of Cromwell, that the single 
square of Mars did the business, though the body of Jupiter, See. 
were very near to the place. This is Brick-court Astrology with a 
witness! Risurn teneatis. 

4. In the case of Casimir, King of Poland, page 46, it did like¬ 
wise fail, though Mars was there among the Pleiades, and for that 
reason more violent. 

5. In the Nativity of Charles Tortenson, the great Swedish Ge¬ 
neral, page 48, where Mars is in conjunction with the Sun, Lord 
of the Eighth, yet this worthy gentleman lets him outlive the As¬ 
cendant to the Square of Saturn, bodies of Mars and the Sun, and 
sends him to the other world on the Ascendant to the Opposition 
of Saturn. In this Nativity, honest John hath shown as much of 
his ignorance (as to the rules of Astrology) as in any one case 
throughout the whole book besides ; for here he gives the Ascend¬ 
ant the power of hileg, and yet both the Sun and the Moon are in 
aphetical places, the one in the first and the other in the seventh. 

6. In the Nativity of the Duchess of Sfortia, page 64, the square 
of Mars did not kill, but the Ascendant to the Opposition of the 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


113 


Moon, and the Sun to the Square of Venus did, and yet neither of 
then givers of life; neither did the Ascendant to the Square of 
Mars kill in the Nativity of Don John of Austria, page 65. 

7. In the Nativity of George Duke of Albemarle, page 70, 
neither the Square of Saturn or Mars to the Ascendant could kill 
him, and yet Mars lord of the eighth house. 

8. In the case of Pope Paul V, the Ascendant to the Square of 
Mars did not kill, and yet the Opposition of Mercury out of the 
eighth house fell near the same place. 

9. In the case of Pope Gregory XV, page 81, the Horoscope to 
the Square of Mars did not kill, and yet that angle is giver of life; 
but the Square of Mercury did it to the purpose a little while after. 
I suppose Mars was popishly inclined at that time, and therefore 
would not hurt his ghostly father ; but Mercury appeared to be a 
downright heretick, and had no respect either to his age or infal¬ 
libility. 

10. In the Nativity of Cardinal Peter Bembus, page 8.5, the 
same aspect did not kill, and yet Mars lord of the eighth. I really 
judge that he was a papist in those times ; what think you, John, 
was he or no ? You are the better judge of the two, because you are 
of that persuasion. 

11. In the case of Mr. Thos. Gataker, page 102, the Square of 
Mars and Opposition of the Sun out of the eighth would not do, 
but the Opposition of Saturn did it afterwards. 

12. In the Nativity of Judge Reeves, page 121, the Square of 
Mars, Opposition of the Moon, and body of Saturn, could not kill; 
but after that something else did it. 

13. In the case of Dr. Richard Saford, page 133, he outlived the 
Ascendant to the Square of Mars and the Sun, both which aspects 
fell near the Lion’s heart. 


114 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


14. In the geniture of Mr. Stephen Rogers, page 138, the As¬ 
cendant was directed to the Square of Mars, and yet that could not 
kill him,, although the Square of the Moon gave her assistance. 

15. In that of Major-General Lambert, page 167, he passed the 
Ascendant to the Square of Mars, and divers years after to the 
Square of Saturn and the Moon, and lived many years after¬ 
wards. 

16. In the case of Dr. Geoffery le Neve, page 178, he likewise 
outlived the Ascendant to the Square of Mars, and to the Square of 
Saturn after that also. 

17. In the Nativity of Mr. John Booker, page 187, you will 
there find that he outlived the Ascendant to the Square of Mars, 
Square of the Sun, Square of the Moon, and Square of Mercury, 
and lived many years afterwards. 

18. In the geniture of Mr. William Leybourn, page 187, you 
will also find that he outlived the Ascendant to the Square of Mars 
and Mercury, and yet these fell near the cusp of the fourth house, 
and in Cancer likewise; as it did in that figure honest John gave 
us for the true one of Oliver Cromwell. 

19. In his own Nativity, page 190, he outlived the Ascendant to 
the Opposition of Mars, and lives yet, as I suppose. 

20. In the Nativity of Mr. John Mallett, p. 130, he outlived the 
Ascendant to the Square of Mars, but unhappily died afterwards 
on the Ascendant to the Square of Saturn, as honest John says. 


[To be continued.] 


astrologer's pocket companion, 


115 


TABLE OF HOUSES, 

For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes , 


According to Ptolemy. 




o 

in 

V- 






o 

in 

«• 




Time 

from 

10 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

3 

Time 

from 

10 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

3 

Noon. 

r 

« 

JD 

25 

a 

m 

Noon. 

a 

n 

25 

a 

m 

m 

H. 

M. 

e r 

ff r 

S r 

Gr. 

M. 

g r 

g T 

H. 

M. 

g T 

£ r 

g r 

Gr. M. 

s* 

g* 

0 

0 

0 

9 

22 

26 

42 

12 

3 

1 

52 

0 

9 

17 

16 

31 

4 

28 

0 

4 

l 

10 

23 

27 

23 

13 

3 

1 

55 

1 

10 

18 

17 

11 

5 

29 

0 

7 

2 

11 

24 

28 

2 

14 

4 

1 

59 

2 

11 

19 

17 

51 

6 


0 

11 

3 

12 

25 

28 

48 

15 

5 

2 

3 

3 

12 

19 

18 

31 

7 

1 

0 

15 

4 

13 

25 

29 

21 

15 

6 

2 

7 

4 

13 

20 

19 

12 

8 

2 

0 

18 

5 

14 

26 

0SL 1 

16 

7 

2 

11 

5 

14 

21 

19 

52 

9 

2 

0 

22 

6 

15 

27 

0 

40 

17 

8 

2 

15 

6 

15 

22 

20 

32 

9 

3 

0 

26 

7 

16 

28 

1 

20 

18 

8 

2 

19 

7 

16 

22 

21 

13 

10 

4 

0 

29 

8 

17 

29 

2 

0 

18 

P 

2 

23 

8 

17 

23 

21 

54 

11 

5 

0 

33 

9 

18 

25 

2 

39 

19 

IT) 

2 

26 

9 

18 

24 

22 

35 

11 

6 

0 

3710 

19 

1 

3 

19 

20 

11 

2 

30 

10 

19 

25 

23 

16 

12 

7 

0 

4011 

20 

1 

3 

59 

20 

12 

2 

34 

11 

20 

25 

23 

57 

13 

8 

0 

44 12 

22 

2 

4 

38 

21 

13 

2 

38 

12 

21 

26 

24 

38 

14 

9 

0 

48 13 

23 

3 

5 

17 

22 

14 

2 

42 

13 

22 

27 

25 

19 

14 

10 

0 

51 14 

24 

4 

5 

57 

23 

15 

2 

46 

14 

23 

28 

26 

0 

15 

11 

0 

5516 

25 

6 

6 

36 

23 

15 

2 

50 

15 

24 

29 

26 

42 

16 

12 

0 

5916 

26 

6 

7 

15 

24 

16 

2 

54 

16 

25 

29 

27 

24 

17 

12 

1 

317 

27 

f 

7 

55 

25 

17 

2 

58 

17 

26 

a 

28 

6 

18 

13 

l 

6 18 

28 

7 

8 

35 

26 

18 

3 

2 

18 

26 

i 

28 

47 

18 

14 

l 

1019 

29 

8 

9 

14 

26 

19 

3 

6 

19 

27 

2 

29 

30 

19 

15 

1 

1420 

11 

9 

9 

53 

27 

19 

3 

10 

20 

28 

3 

0ml3 

20 

16 

1 

1821 

1 

10 

10 

34 

28 

20 

3 

14 

21 

29 

3 

0 

55 

21 

17 

1 

21 22 

2 

1C 

11 

12 

28 

21 

3 

18 

22 

25 

4 

1 

37 

22 

18 

1 

25 23 

3 

ll 

11 

52 

29 

22 

3 

22 

23 

1 

5 

2 

20 

22 

19 

1 

29 24 

4 

12 

12 

32 


23 

3 

26 

24 

2 

6 

3 

2 

23 

20 

1 

33 25 

5 

13 

13 

62 

1 

24 

3 

31 

25 

3 

7 

3 

46 

24 

21 

1 

36 26 

6 

14 

13 

12 

1 

25 

3 

35 

26 

4 

7 

4 

29 

25 

22 

1 

40 27 

7 

14 

14 

32 

2 

25 

3 

39 

27 

5 

8 

5 

12 

26 

23 

1 

4428 

7 

15 

15 

12 

3 

26 

3 

43 

28 

6 

9 

5 

55 

27 

24 

1 

48 29 

8 

16 

15 

51 

4 

27 

3 

47 

29 

7 

10 

6 

39 

27 

25 

1 

52 30 

9 

17 

16 

31 

4 

28 

3 

51 

30 

8 

11 

7 

22 

28 

25 


























116 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE, OR, 

TABLE OF HOUSES, 


For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes, 

According to Ptolemt. 





o 

in 

H. 







o 

in 

03 . 




Time 

from 

10 

11 

12 

Aseen. 

2 

I 3 

Time 

from 

1C 

> 11 

IS 

! Ascen. 

2 

3 

Noon. 

n 

2 ? 

SI 

m 

n* 


Noon. 

2Z 

■>Sl 

”1 

) 


IT] 

H< 

M 


g T 

g T 

g*- 

in. 

g T 

g T 

H. 

M. 

g' 

g r 

S r 

gr * 

m. 

g* 

g T 

3 

51 

0 

8 

11 

7 

22 28 

25 

6 

0 

0 

6 

6 

• 0 

0 

24 

24 

3 

55 

l 

9 

12 

8 

6|29 

26 

6 

4 

1 

7 

7 

0 

47 

25 

25 

4 

0 

2 

10 

12 

8 

50 

./i 

27 

6 

9 

2 

8 

e 

1 

33 

26 

26 

4 

4 

3 

10 

13 

9 

34 

1 

28 

6 

13 

3 

9 

9 

2 

19 

27 

27 

4 

8 

4 

11 

14 

10 

18 

2 

29 

6 

17 

4 

10 

10 

3 

5 

27 

28 

4 

12 

5 

12 

15 

11 

3 

2 

m 

6 

22 

5 

11 

10 

3 

51 

28 

29 

4 

16 

6 

13 

16 

11 

47 

3 

i 

6 

26 

6 

12 

n 

4 

27 

29 


4 

21 

7 

14 

17 

12 

31 

4 

2 

6 

31 

7 

13 

12 

5 

23 

m 

•# 

1 

4 

25 

8 

15 

17 

13 

16 

5 

3 

6 

35 

8 

1 4 

13 

6 

9 

i 

2 

4 

29 

9 

16 

18 

14 

1 

6 

4 

6 

39 

9 

15 

14 

6 

55 

2 

3 

4 

33 

10 

17 

19 

14 

46 

7 

5 

6 

41 

10 

16 

15 

7 

40 

2 

4 

4 

38 

11 

18 

20 

15 

31 

8 

6 

6 

48 

11 

16 

16 

8 

26 

3 

4 

4 

42 

12 

19 

21 

16 

16 

8 

7 

6 

52 

12 

17 

16 

9 

12 

4 

5 

4 

46 

13 

20 

21 

17 

1 

9 

8 

6 

57 

13 

18 

17 

9 

57 

5 

6 

4 

51 

t) 

21 

22 

17 

46 

10 

9 

7 

1 

14 

19 

18 

10 

41 

.6 

7 

4 

55 

16 

22 

23 

18 

31 

11 

10 

7 

5 

15 

20 

19 

11 

28 

<■7 

t 

8 

4 

59 

16 

23 

24, 

19 

17 

12 

11 

7 

9 

16 

21 

20 

12 

14 

8 

9 

5 

3 

17 

24 

25 

20 

4 

13 

12 

7 

14 

17 

22 

21 

12 

59 

8 

10 

5 

8 

18 

25 

26 

20 

49 

14 

13 

7 

18 

18 

23 

22 

13 

45 

9 

11 

5 

12 

19 

25 

27 

21 

35 

14 

14 

7 

22 

19 

24 

22 

14 

30 

10 

12 

5 

16 

20 

2 C 

28 

22 

20 

15 

14 

7 

27 

20 

25 

23 

15 

14 

11 

15 

5 

21 

21 

27 

28 

23 

6 

16 

15 

7 

31 

21 

26 

24 

15 

59 

12 

14 

5 

25 

22 28 

29 

23 

51 

17 

16 

7 

35 

22 

27 

25 

16 

44 

13 

15 

5 

29 

23 

29 

n 

24 

37 

18 

17 

7 

39 

23 

28 

26 

17 

29 

13 

16 

5 

34 

24 

SI 

1 

25 

25 

19 

18 

7 

44 

24 

29 

27 

18 

14 

14 

17 

5 

38 

25 

1 

2 

26 

9 

20 

19 

7 

48 

25 

nj 

28 

18 

58 

15 

18 

5 

43 

26 

2 

3 

26 

55 

20 

20 

7 

51 ' 

26 

i 

28 

19 

42 

16 

19 

5 

47 

27 

3 

4 

27 

41 

21 

21 

7 

56! 

27 

2 

29 

20 

26 

17 

20 

5 

51 

28 

4 

4 

28 

27 

22 

22 

8 

0 ! 

28 

3 

■/V 

21 

10 

18 

20 

5 

56 

29 

5 

5 

29 

13 

23 

23 

8 

5! 

29 

4 

1 

21 

54 

18 

21 

6 

0 

30 

6 

6 

30 

0 

24: 

24 

8 

9|30 

5 

2 

22 

38 

19 

22 { 













































astrologer’s pocket companion, 


117 


TABLE OF HOUSES, 


For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes, 

According to Ptolemy. 





o 

in 

a- 







G 

in 

W- 




Time 

from 

10 

11 12 

Aseen. 

2 

3 

Time 

f* mm 

to 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

2 

Noon. 

SI 



"1 

X 

11 Ulll 

Noon. 

% 



m 

X 


S4. 

M. 

S' 

?r|gr 

g r - 

m. 

g r 

g* 

H. 

M. 

(T 

g r 

g r 

gr. 

m. 

g T 

S' 

8 

9 

0 

5 

2 

22 

38 

19 

22 

10 

8 

0 

2 

26 

13 

30 

13 

20 

8 

13 

1 

5 

3 

23 

22 

20 

23 

10 

12 

1 

3 

26 

14 

9 

14 

21 

8 

17 

2 

6 

3 

24 

5 

21 

24 

10 

16 

2 

4 

27 

14 

49 

15 

22 

8 

21 

3 

7 

4 

24 

48 

22 

25 

10 

20 

3 

5 

28 

15 

29 

16 

23 

8 

2.5 

4 

8 

5 

25 

32 

23 

26 

10 

24 

4 

5 

29 

16 

9 

16 

24 

8 

29 

5 

9 

6 

26 

16 

23 

27 

10 

28 

5 

6 

29 

16 

48 

17 

25 

8 

34 

6 

10 

7 

26 

58 

24 

28 

10 

31 

e 

7 

m 

17 

28 

18 

26 

8 

38 

7 

11 

8 

27 

42 

25 

29 

10 

35 

7 

8 

1 

18 

9 

19 

27 

8 

42 

8 

12 

8 

28 

23 

26 


30 

39 

8 

9 

2 

18 

48 

20 

28 

8 

46 

9 

13 

9 

29 

6 

27 

1 

10 

42 

9 

10 

2 

19 

28 

20 

29 

S 

50 

10 

14 

10 

29 

48 

27 

2 

10 

46 

to 

11 

3 

20 

8 

21 

«M/ 

8 

64 11 

15 

11 

0m30 28 

3 

10 

50 

11 

11 

4 

20 

48 

22 

1 

8 

58 12 

L6 

12 

1 

13 

29 

4 

10 

54 

12 

12 

4 

21 

26 

23 

2 

9 

213 

17 

12 

1 

55 

X 

4 

10 

57 

13 

13 

5 

22 

5 

24 

3 

9 

614 

18 

13 

2 

36 

1 

5 

11 

1 

14 

14 

6 

22 

45 

24 

4 

9 

1015 

18 

14 

3 

28 

2 

6 

31 

5 

15 

15 

7 

23 

24 

25 

5 

9 

1416 

19 

15 

4 

0 

2 

7 

11 

9 

16 

16 

7 

24 

4 

26 

6 

9 

1817 

20 

16 

4 

41 

3 

8 

11 

12 

17 

17 

8 

24 

43 

27 

8 

9 

2218 

21 

16 

5 

21 

4 

9 

11 

16 

18 

17 

9 

25 

23 

28 

9 

9 

26 19 

22 

17 

6 

4 

5 

10 

11 

20 

L9 

18 

10 

26 

1 

29 

10 

9 

3020 

23 

18 

6 

45 

5 

11 

11 

23 

20 

19 

10 

26 

41 

b 

11 

9 

3421 

24 

19 

7 

26 

6 

12 

11 

27 

21 

20 

11 

27 

22 

0 

12 

9 

3822 

25 

19 

8 

6 

7 

13 

11 

31 

22 

21 

12 

28 

1 

1 

13 

9 

4l!23 

26 

20 

8 

47 

8 

14 

11 

34 

23 

22 

13 

28 

40 

2 

14 

9 

4524 

27 

21 

9 

28 

9 

15 

11 

38 

24 

23 

13 

29 

20 

3 

15 

9 

49!25 

28 

22 

10 

8 

9 

16 

11 

42 

25 

23 

14 

29 

59 

4 

16 

9 

5326 

28 

23 

10 

48 

10 

17 

11 

45 

26 

24 

15 

0 f39 

5 

17 

9 

57 

27 

29 

23 

11 

29 

11 

18 

11 

49 

27 

25 

15 

1 

19 

5 

18 

10 

1 

28 

j -w 

24 

12 

9 

12 

19 

11 

53 

28 

26 

16 

2 

8 

6 

19 

10 

5 

29 

1 

25 

12 

fio 

12 

20 

11 

56 

29 

26 

17 

2 

39 

7 

20 

10 

8 

30 

2 

26 

13 

3o 

13 

20 

12 

0 

30 

27 

17 

3 

10 

8 

21 


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118 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE $ OR, 


TABLE OF HOUSES, 

For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes , 


According to Ptolemy. 


o in -£h. 




G 

in 

TU. 




Time 

from 

10 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

3 

Time 

from 

10 

ii 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

3 

Noon. 


./V 

r,i 

1 


kf 

AAA 

/VW 

Noon. 

111 

m 

/ 

t 


AAA. 

AAA' 

X 

H. 

M. 

S' 

?' 

s r 

S '• 

m. 

g r 

g f 

H. 

M. 

S' 

S' 

S' 

S'- 

m. 

g r 

S' 

12 

0 

0 

27 

17 

3 

1 ‘ 

8 

21 

13 

51 

0 

22 

10 

25 

15 

10 

27 

12 

4 

1 

28 

18 

3 

59 

9 

22 

13 

55 

1 

23 

11 

26 

5 

11 

28 

12 

7 

2 

29 

19 

4 

49 

10 

24 

13 

59 

2 

24 

11 

26 

50 

12 


12 

11 

3 


20 

5 

20 

11 

25 

14 

3 

3 

25 

12 

27 

4 ? 

14 

i 

12 

15 

4 

1 

20 

6 

2 

12 

26 

14 

7 

4 

26 

13 

28 

39 

15 

2 

12 

18 

5 

1 

21 

6 

43 

13 

27 

14 

11 

5 

26 

14 

29 

31 

16 

4 

12 

22 

6 

2 

22 

7 

24 

14 

28 

14 

15 

6 

27 

15 

0W>24 

18 

5 

12 

26 

7 

3 

23 

8 

5 

15 

29 

14 

19 

7 

28 

15 

1 

18 

19 

6 

12 

29 

8 

4 

23 

8 

46 

16 

X 

14 

22 

8 

29 

16 

2 

13 

20 

8 

12 

33 

9 

5 

24 

9 

28 

17 

2 

14 

26 

9 

/ 

17 

3 

10 

22 

9 

12 

37 

10 

6 

26 

10 

10 

18 

3 

14 

30 

10 

1 

18 

4 

6 

23 

10 

12 

40 

11 

G 

25 

10 

5g 

19 

4 

14 

34 

11 

2 

19 

5 

3 

25 

11 

12 

44 

12 

7 

26 

11 

35 

20 

5 

14 

38 

12 

2 

20 

6 

1 

26 

13 

12 

48 

13 

8 

27 

12 

18 

21 

6 

14 

42 

13 

3 

20 

7 

0 

28 

14 

12 

51 

14 

9 

28 

12 

^9 

22 

7 

14 

46 

14 

4 

21 

8 

0 

29 

15 

12 

55 

15 

10 

28 

13 

43 

2 o 

9 

14 

50 

15 

5 

22 

9 

2 

X 

17 

12 

59 

,16 

11 

29 

14 

26 

24 

10 

14 

54 

16 

6 

23 

10 

5 

3 

18 

13 

3 

17 

11 

t 

15 

10 

25 

11 

14 

58 

17 

7 

24 

11 

9 

4 

19 

13 

6 

18 

12 

1 

15 

54 

26 

12 

15 

2 

18 

8 

25 

12 

14 

6 

21 

13 

10 

19 

13 

1 

16 

39 

27 

13 

15 

6 

19 

9 

26 

13 

21 

8 

22 

13 

14 

20 

14 

2 

17 

23 

28 

15 

15 

10 

20 

9 

27 

14 

29 

9 

23 

13 

18 

21 

15 

3 

18 

8 

29 

16 

15 

14 

21 

10 

27 

15 

37 

11 

24 

13 

21 

22 

16 

4 

18 

54 

AAA/ 

VW 

17 

15 

18 

22 

11 

28 

16 

46 

13 

26 

13 

25 

23 

16 

4 

19 

39 

1 

18 

15 

22 

23 

12 

29 

17 

58 

14 

27 

13 

29 

24 

17 

5 

20 

26 

2 

20 

15 

26 

24 

13 

kf 

19 

11 

16 

28 

13 

33 

25 

18 

6 

21 

14 

4 

21 

15 

31 

25 

14 

1 

20 

27 

17 

29 

13 

36 

26 

19 

7 

22 

1 

5 

22 

15 

35 

26 

15 

2 

21 

43 

19 

b 

13 

40 

27 

20 

7 

22 

49 

6 

23 

15 

39 

27 

16 

3 

23 

3 

21 

2 

13 

44 

28 

21 

8 

23 

37 

7 

25 

15 

43 

28 

17 

4 

24 

24 

22 

3 

13 

48 

29 

21 

9 

24 

26 

8 

26 

15 

47 

29 

18 

5 

25 

46 

24 

5 

|13 

52 

30 

22 

10 

25 

15 

10 

27 

15 

51 

30 

18 

6 

27 

10 

26 

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astrologer’s pocket companion 


119 


TABLE OF HOUSES, 

For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes , 

According to Ptolemv. 





o 

in 

t- 




Time 

from 

10 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

3 

Noon. 

t 

s 



X 

b 

H. 

M. 

S' 

S T 

S' 

S'- 

in. 

S' 

S' 

15 

51 

0 

18 

6 

27 

10 

26 

6 

15 

55 

1 

19 

7 

28 

37 

28 

7 

16 

0 

2 

20 

8 

0^7 6 

V 

9 

16 

4 

3 

21 

9 

1 

37 

l 

10 

16 

8 

4 

22 

10 

3 

11 

.3 

11 

16 

12 

5 

23 

11 

4 

48 

5 

12 

16 

16 

6 

21 

12 

6 

27 

7 

14 

16 

21 

7 

25 

l3 

8 

8 

9 

15 

16 

25 

8 

26 

14 

9 

52 

11 

16 

16 

29 

9 27 

16 

11 

40 

12 

17 

16 

33 

1028 

17 

12 

30 

14 

18 

16 

38 

11 

29 

18 

15 

20 

16 

20 

16 

42 

12 

b 

19 

17 

16 

18 

21 

16 

46 

13 

l 

20 

19 

15 

20 

22 

l6 

51 

14 

2 

21 

21 

17 

21 

23 

16 

55 

15 

3 

22 

23 

24 

23 

25 

16 

59 

16 

4 

24 

25 

32 

25 

26 

|7 

4 

17 

5 

25 

27 

44 

27 

27 

17 

8 

18 

6 

26 

29 

58 

28 

28 

17 

11 

19 

7 

27 

2 XH 

b 

29 

17 

16 

20 

8 

29 

4 

38 

i 

n 

17 

20 

21 

9 

AAA 

■wv 

7 

0 

9 

1 

17 

25 

22 

10 

1 

9 

24 

6 

2 

17 

30 

23 

11 

3 

11 

53 

7 

3 

17 

34 

24 

12 

4 

14 

23 

8 

5 

17 

38 

25 

13 

5 

16 

59 

10 

6 

17 

43 

26 

14 

7 

19 

32 

11 

7 

17 

47 

27 

15 

8 

22 

5 

13 

8 

17 

51 

28 

16 

10 

24 

39 

14 

9 

17 

56 

29 

17 

11 

27 

20 

16 

10 

18 

0 

30 

18 

13 

30 

0 

17 

11 


Q in fcf. 


Time 

from 

Noon. 

10 

b 

11 

12 

Ascen. 

2 

b 

3 

n 

H. 

M. 

S' 

? r 

S' 

g r - 

m. 


S' 

18 

0 

0 

(8 

13 

0 

0 

17 

n 

18 

4 

l 

20 

14 

2 

37 

19 

13 

18 

9 

2 

21 

16 

5 

19 

20 

14 

18 

13 

3 

22 

17 

7 

55 

22 

15 

18 

17 

4 

i- 

19 

10 

29 

23 

16 

18 

22 

5 

24 

20 

13 

2 

25 

17 

18 

26 

6 

25 

22 

15 

37 

26 

18 

18 

30 

7 

26 

25 

18 

7 

28 

19 

18 

35 

8 

27 

25 

20 

35 

29 

20 

18 

39 

9 

29 

27 

23 

0 

D 

21 

18 

44 

10 

zz 

t* 

25 

22 

1 

22 

18 

48 

11 

~1 

X 

27 

43 

2 

23 

18 

52 

12 

2 

2 

0 « 0 

4 

24 

18 

57 

13 

3 

3 

2 

16 

5 

25 

19 

1 

14 

4 

5 

4 

27 

6 

26 

19 

5 

15 

6 

7 

6 

S3 

8 

27 

19 

9 

16 

7 

9 

8 

39 

9 

28 

19 

14 

17 

8 

10 

to 

43 

lo 

29 

19 

18 

18 

• 

12 

12 

42 

11 

25 

19 

22 

19 

10 

14 

14 

40 

12 

1 

19 

27 

20 

12 

16 

16 

31 

IS 

2 

19 

31 

21 

13 

18 

18 

20 

14 

3 

19 

35 

22 

14 

19 

20 

7 

16 

4 

19 

39 

23 

15 

•21 

21 

52 

17 

5 

19 

44 

24 

16 

23 

23 

33 

18 

6 

19 

48 

25 

18 

25 

25 

13 

L9 

7 

19 

52 

26 

19 

27 

26 

49 

20 

8 

19 

5b 

27 

20 

28 

28 

22 

21 

9 

20 

0 

28 

21 

<Y 

29 

53 

22 

10 

20 

5 

29 

23 

2 

In23 

23 

11 

20 

9 

30 

24 

4 

2 

50 

24 

12 





























120 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

TABLE OF HOUSES, 


For the Latitude of 51 Degrees 32 Minutes , 

According to Ptolemy. 





o 

in XC7. 




- 


< 

5 in : 

X- 




Time 

from 

Noon. 

10 

11 

<vw 

12 

<Y 

Aseen. 

n 

2 

Li 

3 

2 c 

Time 

from 

Noon. 

10 

X 

11 12 
T » 

Ascen. 

25 

2 

25 

1 £> 1 

H. 

M. 

g' 

g r 

gr 

g r - 

m. 

g 1 

g r 

H. 

M. 

g' 

g r 'g T 

g r - 

m. 

g r 

gr 

20 

9 

0 

24 

4 

2 

50 

24 

12 

22 

8 

0 

3 20 

4 

45 

20 

8 

20 

13 

1 

25 

6 

4 

14 

25 

12 

22 

12 

1 

421 

5 

35 

21 

8 

20 

17 

2 

27 

7 

5 

37 

26 

13 

22 

16 

2 

623 

6 

23 

22 

9 

20 

21 

kJ 

28 

9 

6 

58 

27 

14 

22 

20 

3 

7 24 

7 

12 

23 

10 

20 

25 

4 

29 

11 

8 

17 

28 

15 

22 

24 

4 

8 25 

8 

0 

23 

11 

20 

29 

5 

X 

13 

9 

33 

29 

16 

22 

27 

5 

9 26 

8 

48 

24 

12 

20 

34 

6 

2 

14 

10 

49 

2c 

17 

22 

31 

6 

1028 

9 

35 

25 

13 

20 

38 

7 

c 

16 

12 

3 

1 

18 

22 

35 

7 

12 29 

10 

22 

26 

14 

20 

42 

8 

4 

18 

13 

14 

2 

19 

22 

39 

8 

13 b 

11 

7 

26 

14 

20 

46 

9 

6 

19 

14 

24 

s 

20 

22 

42 

9 

14 

1 

11 

52 

27 

15 

20 

50 

10 

7 

21 

15 

32 

3 

21 

22 

46 

10 

15 

2 

12 

37 

28 

16 

20 

54 

11 

8 

23 

16 

40 

4 

21 

22 

50 

11 

17 

3 

13 

22 

29 

17 

20 

58 

12 

9 

24 

17 

46 

5 

22 

22 

54 

12 

18 

4 

14 

7 

29 

18. 

21 

2 

13 

11 

26 

18 

51 

6 

23 

22 

57 

13 

19 

5 

14 

52 

a 

19 

21 

6 

14 

12 

28 

19 

56 

7 

24 

23 

1 

14 

20 

6 

15 

35 

1 

19 

21 

10 

15 

18 

29 

20 

58 

8 

25 

23 

5 

15 

21 

7 

16 

17 

2 

20 

21 

14 

16 

15 

8 

22 

0 

9 

26 

23 

9 

16 

23 

8 

17 

1 

2'21 

21 

18 

17 

16 

2 

23 

0 

10 

27 

23 

12 

17 

24 

9 

L7 

44 

322 

21 

22 

18 

17 

4 

23 

59 

10 

28 

23 

16 

18 

2510 

18 

26 

423 

21 

26 

19 

19 

5 

24 

58 

11 

28 

23 

20 

19 

26 U 

19 

9 

5 24 

21 

30 

20 

20 

7 

25 

55 

12 

29 

23 

23 

20 

2712 

19 

52 

5 24 

21 

34 

21 

22 

8 

26 

51 

13 

a 

23 

27 

21 

29 13 

20 

32 

625 

21 

38 

22 

23 

10 

27 

47 

14 

1 

23 

31 

22 

b 

14 

21 

14 

7 26 

21 

41 

23 

24 

11 

28 

41 

15 

2 

23 

34 

23 

i 

15 

21 

56 

7 27 

21 

45 

24 

25 

13 

29 

36 

15 

3 

23 

38 

24 

2 

16 

22 

37 

8 28 

21 

49 

25 

26 

14 

02229 

16 

4 

23 

42 

25 

3 

17 

23 

18 

9 28 

21 

53 

26 

28 

15 

1 

22 

17 

4 

23 

45 

26 

4 

18 

23 

59 

9 29 

21 

57 

27 

29 

16 

2 

14 

18 

5 

23 

• 49 

27 

5 

19 

24 

39 

10 TO 

22 

1 

28 

r 

18 

3 

4 

19 

6 

23 

53 

28 

6 

20 

25 

21 

11 

1 

22 

5 

29 

2 

19 

3 

56 

19 

7 

23 

56 

29 

8 

21 

26 

2 

12 

2 

{22 

8 

30 

3 

20 

4 

45 

20 

1 8 

24 

0 

30 

9 

22 

26 

42 

12 

3 





























astrologer’s pocket companion. 


121 


TO THE EDITOR OF THE « SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

1 respectfully beg leave to offer you my thanks for 
undertaking to publish, by extracts, the Works of Partridge. I 
find you have begun with his “ Opus.” You, of course, are 
aware that Partridge, in the above work, very often refers to many 
of the nativities in Gadbury’s Collection, supposing that his 
readers were in possession of that work. But in our time, as but 
very few students can be supposed to have Gadbury’s works, 
allow me most humbly but earnestly to suggest the propriety of 
your giving every Figure from Gadbury, with the judgment of 
Partridge under it. 

Also allow me, by means of your work, to ask the proficients 
in astrology a few questions on the nativity of a young Lady 
now livinc, who was born January 25th, 1802, 7 h. 39 m. P.M. 
latitude 53° north. The time of birth may be relied upon. 

Question 1. When will the native marry ? 

2. Describe the husband. 

3 . Will her husband be possessed of property, or not ? 

4. Name the giver of life, and state the time when death may 
be expected. 

I am, Sir, 


Your most obedient servant, 


H. T. 



122 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 107.] 

Jupiter in the twelve Signs. 

Jupiter in Aries represents a middle-statured person, rather 
lean, of a ruddy complexion, the visage oval, the hair flaxen, th« 
eye quick and piercing, a high nose, the face subject to pimples, 
of a noble and generous disposition, most obliging and courteous. 

Jupiter in Taurus forms a middle-statured person, but well set, 
compact, though not handsome; the complexion dark, the hair 
brown and curling, but of a reasonably good disposition, of sound 
judgment and amiable manners, generous and compassionate. 

Jupiter in Gemini represents a well composed body, above the 
middle stature, sanguine complexion, the hair brown, the eye full 
and engaging, the manner graceful and obliging, affable and cour¬ 
teous, a great admirer of the sex, and a lover of science; but 
when near any of the violent fixed stars in Gemini, the person 
will be rash and unstable. 

Jupiter in Cancer gives a middle stature, the complexion pallid, 
sickly, and unhealthful, the face oval, the hair dark brown, very 
conceited and loquacious. 

Jupiter in Leo forms a strong and well proportioned body, tall, 
the hair light brown or yellow, the complexion sanguine, and the 
eye full and commanding; the person is rather comely, noble, 
courageous, and magnanimous, a master of all martial exercises, 
very generous and high-spirited. 


ASTROLOGER’S TOCKET COMPANION. 


123 


Jupiter in Virgo represents a person of reasonably full stature, 
hair black or dark brown, the complexion ruddy but not clear, 
rather handsome, choleric, ambitious, boastful, and studious, but 
covetous and rash, and subject to losses through extreme preci¬ 
pitance. 

Jupiter in Libra gives a complete symmetry in form and stature, 
rather tall and slender, the countenance inviting, the eye full, the 
hair light brown, the complexion clear but subject to pimples, 
mild disposition, and engaging manners. 

Jupiter in Scorpio represents a person of middle stature, com¬ 
pact body, dark hair, fleshy face and obscure complexion, lofty, 
arrogant, and ambitious, resolute and covetous, close, secret, pro¬ 
found, and subtle, and to be treated with great caution. 

Jupiter in Sagittarius gives a tall, upright stature, the hair of a 
chesnut colour, the complexion ruddy, the face oval, and the eye 
comely and engaging, of courteous manners and noble deport¬ 
ment, conspicuous for justice and fairness in their dealings, and 
highly entitled to respect; great lovers of horses, and well accom¬ 
plished in equestrian exercises. 

Jupiter in Capricorn forms persons of a mean stature, pale, 
sickly complexion and lean face, small head, dark hair, very 
weakly and infirm, prone to peevishness and despondency, not 
actively disposed, yet ingenious but unfortunate, helpless, and 
generally in necessitous circumstances. 

Jupiter in Aquarius forms persons of a middle stature, compact, 
rather corpulent, the complexion clear, the hair dark brown, of a 
cheerful and obliging disposition, injurious to none, just and 
merciful, industrious yet fond of recreations, but chiefly only those 
that are moderate and decorous. 


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Jupiter in Pisces forms middle-statured persons, but of fleshy 
body, obscure complexion, lightish brown hair, studious and pos¬ 
sessing excellent talents*, and graced with very creditable acquire¬ 
ments, fortunate upon the water, delighting in good fellowship 
and conviviality. 

MARS. 

Mars is one of the unfortunate or malefic planets, and is called 
the less infortune, in contradistinction to Saturn, who is termed 
the greater; but his influence, although evil, is very different in 
its nature from that of Saturn. The natives of Saturn are sloth¬ 
ful, inactive, and oppressed by poverty; while those of Mars are 
active, furious, and contentious ; they are continually engaged in 
strife and violence, and, if Mars should be evilly configurated to 
Mercury, very dishonest. Such persons are remarkable for great 
acuteness of perception, although perhaps possessing more rash¬ 
ness than solid judgment. If in good aspect to the luminaries and 
Mercury, Mars gives great courage, much dexterity in manual 
operations, great power of calculation, and a brilliant wit; if in 
evil aspect, dissimulation, treachery, obstinacy, and revenge. Thv 
native is audacious, rude, and ungovernable, unrestrained by any 
principle of morality or religion, delighting in war, rapine, and 
bloodshed. When the hyleg is directed to Mars, he produces 


* We must again remind our readers that the abilities and dis¬ 
position of every native are deducible from the Moon and Mer¬ 
cury : in horary questions it is otherwise ; the person’s disposition 
is there judged of from the lord of the ascendant: these descrip¬ 
tions are, therefore, solely applicable to horary questions. 



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fevers, inflammation, accidents by fire, cuts, blows, or desperate 
falls. 

In horary questions Mars is a masculine nocturnil planet, 
choleric and fiery : he governs Aries by day, and Scorpio by night, 
and is the sole ruler of the watery triplicity. 

He is exalted in Capricorn, and has his fall in Cancer, and his 
detriment in Libra and Taurus. 

He describes one of a middle stature, strong well-set body, rather 
muscular than corpulent, the face round, the eyes hazel, sharp 
and piercing, dark reddish complexion, the hair sometimes red, 
sandy, or flaxen, not unfrequently a scar in the face ; the counte¬ 
nance full of confidence and boldness, and the disposition active 
and intrepid. 

If Mars is well dignified he makes men courageous, hazarding 
their lives for any cause, or for none, regarding death as preferable 
to a life of slavery or submission, generous and magnanimous, 
conquering almost every opponent, and rushing into broils and 
contest as a most laudable amusement. 

If ill dignified, the person so described is cruel and malicious, 
eagerly seeking every opportunity of wickedness or mischief, with¬ 
out pity pr humanity, fear of God or regard for man. 


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TO THE EDITOR. 

Sir, 

I observe the Straggler , in his 16th Number, has 
endeavoured to clear himself of the palpable blunder committed 
by him in the 14th. In answer to some Correspondent, who 
does not seem to take all the Straggler’s assertions for gospel, the 
latter says “ he will find the Sun three mundane degrees beyond 
the middle of the 11th house j i. e. nearer the cusp of the 12th, 
by which he is certainly incapacitated from being hyleg.” This, 
in my humble opinion, is a sort of an astrological bull; for he 
might just as well have endeavoured to persuade us that the Sun 
had passed the meridian before twelve o’clock, as to persuade us 
that the Sun had passed the middle of the 11th before he came to 
that part. 

As the above may be the means of preventing some young 
students from being led astray, your insertion will oblige, 

Yours, respectfully. 


Islington, Sept. 21, 1824. 


J. W. 



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OBSERVATIONS ON THE MOON’S APPLICATION AND 
SEPARATION FROM THE DIFFERENT PLANETS. 

[ Continued from page 101. ] 

If the Moon separate from Jupiter, and apply to Mars in a 
nocturnal geniture and be increasing, it denotes magistrates, men in 
great power, but holding their power in great care and danger, and 
not without sickness. 

The Moon separating from Jupiter and applying to the Sun, 
destroys all the patrimony of father and mother, the native to live 
from his parents, exiles, fugitives, slaves, captives, especially if the 
Moon be in the house of Saturn or Mars. 

If the Moon increasing or at full* separate from Jupiter and 
apply to Venus, it signifies noble, potent, powerful persons, but 
to live from their own house, soon to want their parents, but 
nevertheless it signifies happiness in the latter part of their agej 
honest, grateful, courteous persons, and much happiness ; to gain 
by their wives. 

If the Moon separate from Jupiter and apply to Saturn, and be 
increasing or at full, it signifies the native to be adopted by a stran¬ 
ger } tutors and teachers of children, to be employed in moist 
watery places, sailors, pilgrims; but if the Moon be decreasing, it 


* This of course is intended to apply only to the aspects, but 
by no means to the conjunction, as Venus can never be more than 
48 degrees from the Sun. 



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signifies servitude, misfortune, captivity, continual sickness, and 
misery, and, if it be a nocturnal geniture, a violent death. 

If the Moon separate from Jupiter and apply to Mercury, she 
signifies judges, collectors of money, interpreters of the law, reli¬ 
gious persons, and in all things happy. 

If the Moon separate from Mars and apply to the Sun, it signi¬ 
fies very great evils, misfortunes, shortness of life, imbecility, and 
violent death, and to die in a strange country. 

The Moon separating from Mars and applying to Venus at full 
or increasing,' denotes adulterous, libidinous, lecherous persons, 
loving and coveting libidinous and venereous acts, and thereby 
ofteu involving themselves in danger; it signifies jewellers, 
painters, and perfumers, commonly dealers in metals, and some¬ 
times, according to the nature of the sign, vintners, innkeepers, 
victuallers : if the Moon be decreasing in light, it signifies fortunate, 
happy persons, solicitous about women, and getting wealth by 
them ; gaining by their wives estate and credit, but sometimes 
suffering disgrace by venereous acts, always addicted to promis¬ 
cuous lusts. 

The full Moon separating from Mars and applying to Mercury 
in a nocturnal geniture, signifies great persons in great public 
authority, but wicked and malicious, always coveting to do wick¬ 
edness : if it be in a nativity by day and the Moon at full, it signi¬ 
fies them to receive a public sentence of condemnation from the 
mouth of a judge, and therefore to die a violent death. 

If the Moon separate from Mars and apply to Saturn, it denotes 
sluggish, dull persons, profitable for nothing : if the Moon be full 
or increasing, destroyers of their estate, full of sundry vices : but 
if the Moon be decreasing, it denotes hunger, sickness, lunaticks, 
falling sickness, hemorrhoids, and to die a violent death. 


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If the Moon separate from Mars and apply to Jupiter, it signifies 
powerful, rich, fortunate persons: but if she be decreasing in light, 
it afflicts the native with secret hidden vices, and frequent sick¬ 
ness. 

The Moon in a diurnal geniture separating from the Sun and 
applying to Venus, signifies barrenness, hinders marriage and 
children, denotes preposterous loves, filthy unclean lusts, and per¬ 
sons addicted to servile studies, and occupied in servile actions, 
subsisting and maintaining themselves by their own endeavours, 
and in process of time living happily : but in a nativity by night, 
it signifies the native to have many wives, to be grateful, accept* 
able, well-beloved, living in credit, and getting a great estate. 

The Moon separating from the Sun and applying to Mercury in 
a diurnal geniture, signifies the native to be full of danger in all his 
life and actions, of evil manners, sacrilegious, denying the divinity : 
in a nocturnal geniture, it signifies public notaries, scriveners, 
inventors of occult and secret writing, or unlawful letters, finders 
out of secret things, whereby some gain an estate, if not hindered 
by Saturn or Mars. 

The Moon separating from the Sun in a diurnal geniture and 
applying to Saturn, destroys an estate, and divides one from his 
parents, and brings him to want and misery, but in process of 
time gives an estate and happiness: but by night it signifies want, 
and destruction of the estate, much sickness, and affliction. 

The Moon separating from the Sun and applying to Jupiter by 
day, signifies a great estate, good fortune, and happiness beyond 
measure : but in a nocturnal geniture, the natives get their estate 
by their own industry, are subject to early travels, apt to be de¬ 
ceived in their youth, but in age they live in good credit, and gain 
a good estate. 



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If she proceed from the Sun to Mars in a diurnal geniture, it 
signifies sudden death to the native, commonly the parents to die 
a violent death ; the natives are subject to blindness or defects in 
the sight, lame, feeble bodies, they die young, sometimes a violent 
death: if they be in a nocturnal geniture, it signifies cruel, violent 
persons, their employment to be about fire, iron, or metals, subject 
to continual labour. 

The Moon parting from Venus and applying to Mercury, if she 
be increasing or at full, signifies stewards of noble women, thereby 
gaining preferment; it denotes also dyers, jewellers, armourers, 
delighters in music, but libidinous, subject to daily lusts, but 
grateful and amiable in venereous acts : but if the Moon decrease, 
it signifies vicious, unclean persons, but of various employments, 
as orators, makers of images, engravers, painters, sustaining the 
care of others’ pleasures and delights. 

The Moon separating from Venus and applying to Saturn at 
full, or increasing in a nocturnal geniture, gives a wife of an infa¬ 
mous character, or some of his kindred. 

If it be a diurnal geniture and the Moon decrease, the native is 
addicted to filthy lusts and vicious delights, and through libidinous 
acts getting great disgrace and infamy. 


[To be continued]. 



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ASTROLOGICAL ANECDOTE OF JOHN PICUS, 

. PRINCE OF MIRANDULA. 

John Picus, Prince of Mirandula, commonly called 
Picus Mirandula, it is well known, wrote twelve books against 
astrology, so severe and well argued, that he obtained the name 
of Flagellum Astrologorum : the story runs, that Lucius Bellan- 
tius and others got the nativity of Picus, and foretold that he 
would die in his thirty-third year, which provoking him, induced 
him to undertake a most severe satire against astrology; but, 
dying at the time predicted, he admitted that by his own death 
he had disproved all he had written. This should be sufficient 
to satisfy all doubts in unprejudiced minds. To prove the truth 
of the above, we refer our readers to Partridge’s Almanack for 
1700*, where the nativity is fully explained. 


TO CORRESPONDENTS . 

To ( ' A Constant Subscriber —From the position of the Moon, 
who is separating from the square of Saturn and the opposition of 
Mars, and applying to the trine of Herschel without the testi¬ 
mony of Jupiter or Venus, we conclude that the native’s affairs will 
be very unsettled through life, and he is likely to meet with serious 
losses under evil directions, and his health will suffer also: how¬ 
ever, there are some good directions, viz. the mid-heaven to the 


* Not quite certain whether 1700 or 1701. 




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trine of Mercury, Sun to the trine of Jupiter converse, and the 
Moon to the sextile of Jupiter converse; yet, as Jupiter is afflict¬ 
ed by the zodiacal square of Herschel, who is in the 10th, nearly 
in mundane parallel with Saturn, we must say that the native’s 
affairs will require attention : but to give a correct and minute 
account of these matters would take up more space and time than 
we are able to give to private individuals, however willing to 
oblige. 

Our Kingsland Road communication is received, and will be at¬ 
tended to in a future Number. 

As we have given a Table of Houses in this Number, we are, 
of course, obliged to omit the Astronomical Tables, which will 
re-commence with 1781 in the next. The Figure which we gave 
as an example was erected from a table which had the minutes as 
well as the degrees on the cusps of the cadent and succedent 
houses: these are omitted in the present Tables, as this degree of 
accuracy is only necessary for the angles. We thought it proper 
to mention this, as the omission might confuse the young student. 

We have sent a Note to A. B., Westminster, which, no doubt, 
he has received. 

It is our intention to give a beautiful Portrait of Partridge, 
from an original by Robert White. We shall shortly give a large 
Diagram (copper-plate engraving), which will represent the whole 
of the aspects in miniature, the tiriie of the Sun’s entering the 
signs, and the essential dignities of the planets. 


All communications to be addressed to the Editor, post-paid, at 
Messrs. Davis and Dickson, 17, St. Martin’s-le-Grand. 


Davis & Dickson, Printers, 

St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London. 




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TO THE EDITOR. 

Sir, 

I am induced to give publicity to this Nativity, as 
a demonstrable proof of the verity of astral influence. It is the 
nativity of a female child, whose parents resided in the same house 
with me ; and knowing that I made astrology my chief amuse¬ 
ment (for I can assure you that it is not for the sake of any pecu¬ 
niary advantage that induces me to apply a few spare hours to its 
sthdy, but merely for my own amusement), the mother would 
let me have no peace until I had cast the child’s nativity, in order 
to know whether her daughter would live to years of maturity, or 
whether she would be fortunate or unfortunate through life : 
accordingly I erected the preceding diagram. The time I believe 
to be correct, as it was very carefully noted and given to me soon 
afterbirth. The Sun, without doubt, ishyleg,and to him we 
must look for the time of death, which will surely happen when 
he arrives to the quartile of Mars, which he does in about six 
years from the time of birth, followed by a train of evil directions 
which it will be impossible for the native to survive. And it is an 
astonishing fact, that I had not seen any one belonging to the 
family for a length of time, when I accidentally met the mother 
a short time since, who, with heart-felt grief, acquainted me that 
her daughter was no more ; but that she died at the commence¬ 
ment of the present year, and thus verified the truth of my pre¬ 
diction. What is here stated is a fact, and may be depended upon 
as truth, which I am always determined to abide by, and shall 
not attempt to justify or defend astrology any farther than I find 
it consonant to reason and truth, according to my own judgment. 

It may be asked by the sceptics, what proof have we of planet- 


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ary influence excepting what the professors hereof are pleased to 
ascribe to them, when, at the same time, they may have some 
sinister motive for so saying ? In answer to which we have only to 
observe that wonderful and never-ceasing operation of the Moon 
upon the ocean, so as to cause that perpetual flux and reflux of 
the sea, which we term tides. Their regular increase and decrease, 
corresponding to her conjunction, square, and opposition with the 
Sun, is a convincing proof of the powerful influence of the Sun 
and Moon, and establishes, at once, the doctrine we contend for. 
Again, do we not see that those unhappy persons who labour 
under a deprivation of their senses have their fits more violent at 
the full and change of the Moon? Indeed, every subject in the 
creation is more or less affected by the Moon’s influence : in fact, 
her influence and effects are so generally known, that it is almost 
needless to repeat them here, but for the purpose of drawing this 
conclusion,—that as one planet has a known and forcible action 
upon sublunary things, it is natural to believe that all the others 
are endued, in some degree, with a similar force and virtue. 
Again, we see that valetudinarians are affected by the least change 
of the weather, which change is caused by the different aspects of 
the planets to the luminaries ; for whenever we find Tj in c5, □> 
or g to them, we always find the weather cold, wet, and lowery, 
even in the midst of summer, unless the rays of 2^ or $ inter¬ 
pose; in which case their effects are somewhat less visible. Other 
instances might be adduced, whiefh shall be treated of at some 
future time. But we might draw this conclusion,—if the diseases 
of man be affected by the stars, why not his passions ? and, as hi s 
passions govern his actions, why not, by means of his passions 
regulate his fortune ? 

It may be again said, admitting the planets to have that effect 


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you ascribe to them, what advantage can we derive from a know¬ 
ledge of futurity ? Again I answer, we cannot mention a stronger 
instance of the advantages of prescience than what will naturally 
ajrise to every person of experience when he takes a retrospective 
view, and recollects the losses and inconveniences he has sustained 
only for the want of that foreknowledge in mundane affairs which 
this art of prediction supplies. The insertion of this will oblige 

Your obedient servant, 

J. P. 


BIOGRAPHY. 


[Continued from p. 60.] 


LIFE OF ROGER BACON. 

Roger Bacon, an English monk of the Franciscan order, an 
amazing instance of genius and learning, was born near Ilchester, 
in Somersetshire, in the year 1214. He commenced his studies 
at Oxford, from whence he removed to the university of Paris, 
which at that time was esteemed the centre of literature, and 
where, it seems, he made such progress in science that he was 
considered the glory of that university, and there greatly caressed 
by several of his countrymen, particularly by Robert Grouthead, 
afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, his great friend and patron. Having 
taken the degree of a Doctor, he returned to England in 1240, in 
the habit of the Franciscan order, being but about twenty-six 
years of age; but, according to some, he became a monk before 
he left France, 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 137 

He now pursued his favourite study of experimental philoso¬ 
phy with unremitting ardour. In this pursuit, in experiments, 
instruments, and iu scarce books, he informs us he spent, in the 
course of twenty years, no less than two thousand pounds, an 
amazing sum in those days, and which sum, it seems, was gene¬ 
rously furnished to him by some of the heads of the university, to 
enable him the better to pursue his noble researches. But such 
extraordinary talents, and amazing progress in the sciences, which 
in that ignorant age were so little known to the rest of mankind, 
while they raised the admiration of the more intelligent few, 
could not fail to excite the envy of his illiterate fraternity, whose 
malice he farther drew upon him by the freedom with which he 
treated the clergy in his writings, sparing neither their igno¬ 
rance nor their want of morals ; these, therefore, found no dif¬ 
ficulty in possessing the vulgar with the notion of Bacon’s 
dealing with the Devil. Under this pretence he was restrained 
from reading lectures ; his writings were confined to. his convent; 
and, at length, in 1278 he himself was imprisoned in his cell, at 
sixty-four years of age. However, being allowed the use of his 
books, he still proceeded in the rational pursuit of knowledge, 
correcting his former labours, and writing several curious pieces. 

When Bacon had been ten years in confinement, Jerome de 
Ascoti, general of his order, who had condemned his doctrine, 
was chosen Pope, by the name of Nicholas IV ; and being reputed 
a person of great abilities, and one who had turned his thoughts 
to philosophical studies, Bacon resolved to apply to him for his 
discharge, and, to shew both the usefulness and the innocence of 
his studies, addressed to him a treatise on the means of avoiding 
the infirmities of old age. What effect this had on the Pope does 
not appear : it did not, at least, procure an immediate discharge. 


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However, towards the latter end of his reign, by the interposition 
of some nobleman, Bacon obtained his liberty j after which he 
spent the remainder of his life in the college of his order, where 
he died in the year 1294, at eighty years of age, and was buried 
in the Franciscan church. 

Such are the few particulars which the most diligent researches 
have been able to discover concerning the life of this very extra¬ 
ordinary man. 


THE LIFE OF JOHN BUSHNELL, A VERY ECCENTRIC 
ARTIST. 

He was an admired statuary in his time. He was a scholar of 
Burman, who having debauched his maid servant obliged Bushnell 
to marry her, who immediately quitted England in disgust, staid 
two years in France, and thence went to Italy. He lived some 
time at Rome and at Venice $ in the last city he made a magnifi¬ 
cent monument of Procuratore di san Marco , representing the 
siege of Candia, and a naval engagement between the Venetians 
and Turks. He came home through Germany, by way of Ham¬ 
burgh. Some of his finest works after his return were the statues 
of Charles I and Charles 11, at the Royal Exchange, and Sir Tho¬ 
mas Gresham there above stairs : his best were the Kings at Tem¬ 
ple Bar. He carved several marble monuments, particularly one 
for Lord Ashburnham, in Sussex ; one for Dr. Grew’s wife, in 
Christchurch, London; one for Lord Thomond, in Northampton¬ 
shire; Cowley’s and Sir Palmer Fairborn’s, in Westminster Abbey, 
and cut a head of Mr. Talman. He had agreed to complete the 



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set of Kings at the Royal Exchange, but hearing that another person 
(we suppose Cibber) had made interest to carve some of them, he 
would not proceed, though he had begun six or seven. 

Some of his profession asserting that though he was skilful in 
drapery he could not carve a naked figure, he engaged in Alex¬ 
ander the Great, which served to prove that his rivals were in the 
right, at least in what he could not do. His next whim was to 
demonstrate the possibility of the Trojan horse, which he had 
heard treated as a fable that could not be put in execution. He 
undertook such a wooden receptacle, and had the dimensions 
made in timber, intending to cover it with stucco. The head was 
capable of containing twelve men sitting round a table, the eyes 
serving for windows. Before it was half completed a storm of wind 
overset and demolished it; and though two vintners who had 
contracted with him to use his horse as a drinking-booth offered to 
be at the expense of erecting it again, he was too much disap¬ 
pointed to recommence it. This project cost him .£500. Another, 
of vessels for bringing coals to London miscarried too, with deeper 
loss. These schemes, with the loss of an estate he had bought in 
Kent by a lawsuit, quite overset his disordered brain. He died in 
1701, and was buried at Paddington, leaving two sons and a 
daughter. The sons, of whom one had ^100 and another <£60 y 
were as great humourists as their father. They lived in a large 
house fronting Hyde-park, in the lane leading from Piccadilly to 
Tyburn, which had been built by the father, but was unfinished, 
and had neither staircase nor floors. Here they dwelt like hermits, 
recluse from all mankind, sordid and untractable, and saying the 
world had not been worthy of their father. Vertue in one of his 
manuscripts, dated 17 l 2b y begins thus:—" After long expectation 
1 saw the inside of John Bushnell’s house, the sons being both 


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abroad.” He describes it particularly, and what fragments he saw 
there, especially a model in plaister of Charles II, on horseback, 
designed to have been cast in brass, but almost ip ruins; the Alex¬ 
ander, and the unfinished kings. Against the wall was a large 
piece of his painting, a triumph, almost obliterated. He was de¬ 
sired to take notice of a bar of iron thicker than a man’s wrist, 
broken by an invention of Bushnell. 

[To be continued.] 


PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[ Continued from page 114. ] 

EXTRACT VI. 

Thus I have given you above twenty examples of that aspect 
and direction out of his own book, where it did not kill; and I 
could have given you more out of the same also, if I had not 
thought those over and above sufficient to prove the improbability 
of what this trifling man puts upon us for truth. Now let any 
impartial man seriously consider the reasons he gives to prove this 
figure true (which he says cost him so much pains), and especially 
that for his death, and compare the collection of examples I have 
here made with those reasons he hath given, and then tell me 
whether the ascendant to the square of Mars is a direction fit to be 
believed and depended on for the death of Oliver Cromwell; for 
you see here is twenty to one against it; and if like causes have 
like effects (without rules of exception), then I will certainly 
renounce astrology, and believe it no more. I dare further assure 
you, that the astrology which is generally made use of, studied, and 



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141 


practised, is rather fit to be laughed at than believed, as you may 
easily see by the silly shams of Gadbury, if you compare one thing 
with another throughout his whole book called the Collection, 
which in a short time I shall also expose. 

And for me to believe that this gentleman died on the ascend¬ 
ant to the square of Mars, after so plain a conviction of the error, 
when there are twenty examples, under his own hand, to prove 
where and when it hath missed of that effect, is to tell all mankind 
that 1 am an ignorant, credulous fellow, void both of reason and 
skill, and fit to be imposed upon by any one that is willing to 
attempt it. And for my part, when I consider that there are a 
great number of ingenious persons, of all qualities and degrees, in 
this kingdom, who understand astrology very well, and have ob¬ 
served the shams and cheats of this impostor, I wonder they were 
never called in question and exploded before now ; for they will 
serve for no other use but to lead the young students out of their 
way, and bring an odium upon the science itself, when it is read 
by such men, who, when they observe such incoherence, are 
readily apt to make use of it, or any thing else they can pick up, 
to brand it with infamy ; for which end they need not trouble 
themselves to read books written against it; for let them but 
peruse our own authors, and they will not fail to find stuff enough 
in them to make themselves merry at; and yet, for all this, there 
is a true astrology in being : little thanks to our modem authors 
for it. 

Objection .—But perhaps here may arise an objection, and I 
would not have any thing left in the dark that now occurs to my 
memory; for perhaps some may say, Do you believe that it is 
possible for the ascendant to the square of Mars to kill at any 
time? or do you think it can never kill ? Answer , Yes; that I can 

attest upon experience that it doth kill; and I can tell you in 

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several nativities in honest John’s Collection, that the natives 
have died on the ascendant to the square of Mars and square of 
Saturn, though unknown to him : but it must be in such nativi¬ 
ties where the horoscope is giver of life, for no point can be 
directed for death but the hyleg ; and, therefore, whosoever prac- 
tiseth to the contrary to that rule, erreth, and will never do any 
thing well; and you shall see more on that subject,—that no man 
ever yet made any fambus prediction of death, but when he di¬ 
rected and made use of the giver of life in his operation and 
judgment. 

Thus, I have made it plain as possible can be to any artist, or 
other pretender to astrology, that the rules and reasons made use 
of to prove the truth of the Protector’s nativity are false and 
erroneous, and built upon such principles as are not true in 
themselves, neither will they hold good in other positions, to 
effect what they are brought here to prove. And also the major 
part of the directions that he there talks of will serve to any other 
position within half an hour or an hour, with a little variation ; 
but for the first, the fourth, the tenth, and the thirteenth, being 
those that do depend particularly on the truth of the figure, they 
are so ridiculously false, that they need no other arguments to 
expose them but their non-effect in other genitures; and there¬ 
fore I do advise all ingenious, laborious artists to compare one 
thing with another, after this manner, in those books sent forth 
into the world by our modern authors, and at last try, in their 
own practice, whether those rules will hold or not; and also let 
them consider, whether they are not imposed upon in divers other 
cases, as well as in this nativity. 

Lastly , I would advise Mr. John, seeing Mars hath played 
these tricks, and cheated him so, to proceed against him by a form 


ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for JANUARY, 1781. 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 143 

of law, as he knows how, without doubt j and the booksellers of 
London say he hath very good skill in scandalum magnatums , for 
which they desire him to remember the Lari of P. First, then, 
let him bring a quo warranto against him, and take away his char¬ 
ter (he knows where to have judges for the purpose), unless he 
can shew good reason why he hath done his duty so negligently, 
partially, and basely, killing one part of mankind, and letting twenty 
escape that lay at his mercy; by which means he hath brought 
catholic John’s reputation into doubt and question, for which he 
can never make him satisfaction, unless he can help him to a 

greater share of-. And, in the next place, have him before 

Father Peters, and inquisition him, for I doubt the knave is not 
sound in the faith, but hath a plaguy share of heresy and dis¬ 
obedience. How ! serve honest John so ! But it will be so some¬ 
times, when Papists deal with Hereticat stars. 

And then let him draw up an humble address to Monsieur 
Titan, in the name of him and his society, in quo humiliter mon- 
stretur ; that he hath for a long time drove on a trade of lying (but 
not a word of his ignorance) j been cheated and abused by a sort 
of obstinate and disobedient stars; and that if now, at last, he 
pleaseth but to give his mandamus^ that Saturn and Mars, &c. may 
henceforward obediently comply with all the astrological rules in 
fashion, that he shall be in duty bound to shew himself full as skil¬ 
ful as ever. And so I come to present you with the true nativity 
of this great General*, without sham or trick ; and the directions 
shall also have an equal effect in other nativities, according to the 
hypothesis before laid down. 

[To be continued.] 


* See the Figure, No. VI, p. 109. 




144 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


OBSERVATIONS ON THE MOON’S APPLICATION AND 
SEPARATION FROM THE DIFFERENT PLANETS, 

[ Continued from page ISO. ] 

If the Moon separate from Venus and apply to Jupiter, it sig¬ 
nifies noblemen, chiefly magistrates of cities, grateful, courteous, 
lovers of women : if the Moon decrease, it signifies the native to 
gain much by women, to live happy from their youth, attaining 
possessions, great gains, or some honourable office in the church. 

The Moon separating from Venus and applying to Mars in a 
diurnal geniture at full or increasing, signifies misery, destruction, 
imprisonment, or a sudden death, by reason of the love of some 
one : but if in a nocturnal geniture the Moon so apply to Mars, it 
signifies cruel persons in great power, but subject to daily dangers 
and mischances. 

If the Moon be transferred from Venus to the Sun, it separates 
the native from his parents by some bitter falling out, whereby he 
is cruelly burdened with want, full of troubles, but unchaste and 
miserable, afflicted with love, but, after youth is past, in process of 
time he increaseth his estate, and easily attains his desires. 

If in a diurnal geniture the Moon increasing separate from 
Mercury and apply to Saturn, it denotes deafness, stammerers, or 
such as have some impediment in their speech, interpreters, priers 
into secret arts, tailors : but if it be a nativity by night, it signifies 
watermen, or men employed about the water ; but if malevolent 
stars afflict them, it denotes imprisonment and ill fortune to the 
native. 

If the Moon be transferred from Mercury to Jupiter, it signifies 
great men, ambassadors, treasurers, stewards of noblemen, priests, 
rich and happy persons. 

If the Moon be increasing or at full, or pass from Mercury to 


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145 


Mars in a diurnal geniture, it signifies irreligious, perjured, falla¬ 
cious, wicked persons, full of malice, their wickedness daily in¬ 
creasing, thieves, robbers, church-breakers, homicides, murderers, 
and for some wicked act to suffer a violent death : if it be a noc¬ 
turnal geniture, and the Moon at full or increasing apply to Mars, 
it signifies captains, governors of cities, men in great power, but 
terrible tyrants, never standing long in their power, but divers 
ways offending, and therefore to be deposed, banished, or put to a 
violent death. 

Jf the Moon separate from Mercury and apply to the Sun, it 
signifies men dull in their understanding, impedited in their speech, 
deaf, poor wandering people, having inconstant dwelling houses, 
but in process of time these evils will be qualified, and after the 
time of youth is past, they gain a livelihood by sundry employ¬ 
ments. 

If in a nocturnal geniture the full Moon separate from Mer¬ 
cury and apply to Venus, it signifies men employed in public 
actions, getting credit and honour in all their actions, and increase 
of happiness: it signifies orators, men of fluent tongues, poets, 
gaining by women and women’s affairs ; makers of paintings, pic¬ 
tures, colours, medicines, jewellers, but living meanly*, neither 
abounding nor in want, intemperate in venereous acts, and there¬ 
by getting into some disgrace: but if in a nocturnal geniture the 
Moon is decreasing and apply to Venus, it signifies rich and 
wealthy persons, having the chief government of some towns and 
cities, especially if the Moon be free from the beams of the Sun, 
and so likewise Venus: but if this conjunction be in the other 

* By meanly is here to be understood moderately, a sense in 
which this word is often used by astrological writers. 



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places of the geniture, it signifies men always of honest actions, 
and gaining an estate by their own industry : if in a nativity by 
day the Moon decreasing be joined to Venus, and this conjunc¬ 
tion be in the tenth house, it signifies religious persons, builders of 
churches, prelates, or men bearing great offices in the church : 
but in any other places of the geniture, this conjunction signifies 
mean estates occupied in arts about metals, or leather dressers, 
sellers of perfumes or Sweet spices, polishers of precious jewels, 
engravers of images, builders, choristers, such as have knowledge 
of celestial sciences, learned in hidden and secret arts, and by such 
means gaining their livelihood. 

[To be continued]. 


OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 125.] 

OF MARS IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

Mars in Aries forms persons of a middle siee, well set, big 
boned, swarthy complexion, the hair sometimes light, sometimes 
red and curling, of an austere and fierce countenance, the mind 
valorous and intrepid, full of confidence and arduous enterprises, 
violent and rebellious, remarkably conspicuous for their love of 
warlike actions, and usually marked with glory and promotion. 

Mars in Taurus designates persons of a middle stature, but ge¬ 
nerally rather short, well set, corpulent, the complexion not clear, 
the hair dark or black, the face broad, the mouth wide, prone to 
vicious propensities, to gluttony, drunkenness, and the illicit gra- 



astrologer’s rocket companion. 


147 


tification of the passions, destitute of candour and good nature, 
perfidiously disposed, and subject to misfortunes. 

Mars in Gemini forms persons of rather tall stature, the hair 
sometimes brown or black ; but if he be in the beginning of this 
sign, it is of a lighter colour, the complexion inclining to be ruddy 
and sanguine, especially if Mars be near the fixed star Aldebaran, 
the body full of symmetry and proportion, and although very inge* 
nious, yet extremely unsettled and unfortunate, exerting their 
talents in the support of themselves most usually without credit 
and esteem. 

Mars in Cancer personates bodies without due proportion, some- 
times deformed, the complexion vitiated and repulsive, the hair 
brown and abundant, the mind generally unadorned with amiable 
and generous qualities, but sottish and dull, destitute of capacity, 
gaining a livelihood by inglorious occupations. 

Mars in Leo represents persons of a tall stature, large limbs, 
endued with great strength, the complexion sun burnt, the hair 
flaxen or of a light colour, the eyes large and commanding, the 
disposition choleric and hasty with passions, frequently subversive 
of reason, delighting in shooting and riding, and also in warlike 
exercises, yet noble and generous, especially to those who are 
studious of obliging them, possessing the finest feelings of gratitude 
and honour. 

Mars in Virgo forms persons of a middle height, the stature well 
proportioned, the hair black or dark brown, the complexion not 
fair, but often dark and swarthy, the face generally blemished or 
scarred, the mind subject to extreme irritability, very hasty 
and revengeful, retentive of injuries, and impatient of subjection, 
full of conceit and caprice, not easily pleased, and, unless Mars is 


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configurated to the benefics, these persons are generally unfortu¬ 
nate or subject to melancholy reverses. 

Mars in Libra designates well-proportioned persons, rather tall, 
the hair light brown, the face oval, the complexion sanguine and 
ruddy, the countenance full of cheerfulness and vivacity, highly 
susceptible of the tender passions, the votaries of Venus, affected, 
opinionative, and rather boastful, yet delighting in noble amuse¬ 
ments or diversions, neat and elegant in apparel, and though ge¬ 
nerally the objects of love and affection, yet too often the attain¬ 
ment of their hopes or happiness is defeated and marred. 

Mars in Scorpio forms persons of a well set middle stature, in¬ 
clining to corpulency, the face broad, the complexion dark and 
swarthy, the hair black and curling, the disposition not amiably 
qualified, very passionate, rash, revengeful, unsociable, and guilty 
of ingratitude and unkindness, yet, notwithstanding all these harsh 
and uncourteous inclinations, endued with some very laudable 
propensities and capacities, quick of apprehension, and possessing 
strong mental powers, excelling in whatever pursuit they follow, 
congenia\ with their active and energetic minds. 

Mars in Sagittarius designates rather tall, well proportioned per¬ 
sons, the complexion inclining to be sanguine or ruddy, the hair 
brown, the visage oval, the eye quick ; they are of a choleric and 
hasty disposition, yet large of soul, generous and bountiful, in¬ 
clined to cheerfulness and mirth, fond of jovial societies, delighting 
in neatness and elegance, active and enterprising, loquacious, fond 
of applause, and ambitious of renown. 

Mars in Capricorn forms persons of a mean stature, rather lean, 
the complexion not good, with a small head, thin face, and black 
lank hair, yet very ingenious, and endued with great resolution 


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and prudence, a very penetrating and active mind, generally suc¬ 
cessful in their undertakings. 

Mars in Aquarius represents persons of a middle stature, well 
proportioned, rather corpulent, the hair sandy or red, the complex¬ 
ion moderately clear, the disposition turbulent and unruly, ad¬ 
dicted to controversies to the prejudice of their character, happi¬ 
ness, and circumstances. 

Mars in Pisces represents persons of a mean size, rather short, 
but fleshy, uncomely, destitute of symmetry and proportion, the 
complexion unfavoured and bad, the hair of a light brown hue, 
the mind neither adorned with abilities nor virtue, but very dull 
and stupid, sottish and vicious, prone to lewd gratifications, guilty 
of extreme sensuality, dissimulation, and idleness, void of friend¬ 
ship, and unprofitable to society. 

It is necessary to impress on our readers the necessity of observ¬ 
ing whether the significator* has any aspect to the benefics, as in 
that case tbe disposition is always improved. 

* By significator in horary questions is meant the planet which 
represents any person or thing $ for example, in a question concern¬ 
ing the property possessed by another, the ruler of the ascendant is 
significator of the querent, the lord of the second his property ; the 
lord of the seventh represents the person enquired after, and the 
lord of the eighth his wealth. In nativities, the luminaries and the 
angles only are significators of life, honour, &c. and, together with 
Mercury, signify the abilities of the native. 


[To be continued.] 




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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


ANSWERS TO PARADOXES. 

Answer to Paradox 1, page 60. 

The several planets are Venus and Mercury, who have a two¬ 
fold conjunction with the Sun, both in the superior and inferior, or 
points of their orbits: in the first they are between the Sun and 
us, and then sometimes (viz. at their transits) appear like spots in 
his disk; and in the last the Sun is between us and them. 

Answer to Paradox 2, page 78. 

According to the corollary of the last proposition of the third 
book of Whiston’s Euclid, “ If any one should travel over the 
whole circumference of the earth, the way gone over by his head 
would exceed that which was gone over by his feet by the differ¬ 
ence of circumferences, or by the circumference of a circle, whose 
semidiameter is the man’s own stature.” Now, suppose Anson, 
Drake, Cavendish, Dampier, Cook, &c. each to be two yards in 
height, then will the diameter be four yards; consequently the 
circumference will be about twelve yards. 

Answer to Paradox 3, page 78. 

If seen from the Sun, the true centre of the world’s system, the 
primary planets move all regular and direct, though to us, being 
out of the centre of their orbits, they appear sometimes direct, 
sometimes retrograde, and sometimes stationary. For the further 
information of our readers, we shall give a familiar illustration of 
this most useful and important Paradox. Suppose you were 
placed in the centre of a circular race course, and whilst a horse 
was going round you kept your eye on him; you would see him 
run round the course in a regular and uniform manner, moving the 
whole time the same way. A gain,'place yourself at a consider- 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


151 


able distance on the outside of the course, where you could see the 
horse the whole time he was going round; you would perceive on 
the opposite side of the course his motion to be the same as when 
you stood in the centre of it: on his approach you would scarcely 
see him move ; in that part of the course next to you, he would 
move in a direction contrary to what he did at first; and again, 
when going from you, his motion would be scarcely visible. This 
will give a good idea of the irregular motion of the inferior planets, 
as seen from the earth. When farthest from us, their motion is 
said to be direct ; when nearest to us, retrograde , because they ap¬ 
pear to be moving back again ; and when approaching or going 
from us, we say they are stationary , because, if then observed in a 
line with any particular star, they will continue so for a consider¬ 
able time : now these appearances could not happen if they moved 
round the earth, which is a convincing proof of the Sun being the 
centre of our system. 

NEW PARADOXES. 

IV.—A golden ball shall weigh two pounds in troy, 

Where from the equator ten degrees doth lie j 
But at London a different weight is found 
Of that small ball, which difference pray expound. 

V.—The day that I was born, my father he 

Laid down five pounds, and said it was for me ; 

And when my birth-day came, he never fail’d 
To add five pounds (his love so much prevail’d): 

At twenty-four, and upon my birth-day, 

I wedded was, my portion he would pay, 

Which was thirty-five pounds (I full twenty-four): 
How came it that my portion was no more ? 



152 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE, &C. 

VI .—Christians the vreek’sjirst day for Sabbath hold, 
The Jews the seventh (as they did of old), 

The Turks the sixth (as I’ve oft been told) : 
Now, good sir, pray tell to me 
How it is possible this thing can be, 

That a Christian, Jew, and Turk, these three, 
Being altogether in one place, may, 

In and upon one and the self-same day, 

Have each his own true sabbath, tell I pray. 


} 


TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

We have received a letter from Ajax, and are much obliged to 
him for the information it contains: he may be assured that the 
report is totally false. The Proprietors (Davis and Dickson) pledge 
themselves to the public that the work shall be carried on. 

As we have never seen Mr. E.’s system, we are unable to judge 
of its merits : as to the other subject of his letter, it is not in our 
power at present to give any particulars, but in all probability a 
public communication will shortly be made. 


Errata in No. VI.—In the Figure, on the cusps of the 9th 
and 10th, for “ fig” read NX, and for “ A# » reac i g 


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154 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 


TO THE EDITOR OF “ THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

Having by experience proved the truth of Astrology, 
I am induced to send you the inclosed nativity of a friend wh?m 
1 unfortunately beheld fall from the maintop-mast head of H.M.S. 
Le Franchise, lying in Malta harbour, May 16, 1811, P.M. He 
first struck against the maintop-rim, secondly against theupare 
fore top-sail-yard, which was lying in the larboard main-chains* 
and thence overboard ; but by the kind assistance of Mr. Adean 
(Master of the Ship), who immediately leaped overboard after him, 
his life was preserved, after breaking a leg and an arm. Whoever 
chuses to calculate, will find that the planet Saturn arrived at the 
west angle (or in other words the ascendant to the opposition of Saturn 
in tnundo) followed by the Moon to the square of Mars direct, the 
Sun to the semiquartile of Mercury converse, and the Sun to the 
rapt parallel of Mars, which, according to the most eminent As¬ 
trologers, give falls, broken bones, violent contusions, and often 
death. The reason his life was preserved amidst this dreadful train 
of directions, seems to be that the Sun, who is hyieg, was assisted 
by the presence of Jupiter, and is therefore better enabled to resist 
these directions. 

The enemies of Astrology (if there are any who are able to cal¬ 
culate a nativity) have now a fair challenge either to prove th <x' 
falsehood of the science to the world, or, failing in that, to acknow¬ 
ledge its truth. 

The event now 6tated was seen by a number of persons, and can 
be verified on oath if required, as the parties are now living. 

I remain, Sir, 

Your very obedient Servant* 

Oct. by 1824% J. PARTRIDGE, Jim. 


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OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 149.] 

OF THE SUN. 

"The Sun is the centre of our system, although supposed by 
Ptolemy and others to revolve round the Earth. This opinion of 
Ptolemy, although astronomically incorrect, does not in the slight¬ 
est degree affect his system of astrology ; for the stars act upon the 
Earth according to their apparent or geocentric* position, without 
any regard to their true or heliocentric places. The Sun is of a 
hot and dry nature, though inferior in this respect to Mars: he 
has little specific influence of his own, though when in square or 
opposition to the Moon, the native is rash, hasty, and violent, and 
seems of a decidedly martial nature. The Sun possesses the pecu¬ 
liar power of destroying the nature of any planet with which he 
may happen to be in conjunction, and imbibing its qualities him¬ 
self: this is termed combustion, when the planet is within 8° SO 7 
of the Sun ; and being under the Sun-beams when more than that 
distance and less than 17° from his body, the former being a much 
greater affliction than the latter. It seems very ridiculous to sup¬ 
pose that this effect is limited to precisely 8° 30': there can be no 
doubt that every planet gradually loses its power as it approaches 
the Sun, and slowly regains it as it separates from him. When 

* The geocentric place of a planet is that which it appears to be 
in to ap observer placed on the Earth ; the heliocent^je, or true 
place, that w hete it would be seen from the Sun. 



150 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

the Sun is afflicted by the malefics he assumes their nature, and, 
on coming to an evil direction of the hyleg, will powerfully assist 
the destruction of life. Placidus and others suppose, that when 
the Moon is hyleg, an evil direction to the Sun, even when the 
latter is wholly unmixed with the influence of any other planet, is 
fatal; but this does not seem proved by experience. 

It is of the utmost importance in all genitures that the Sun (as 
well as the Moon) be free from affliction} for without this the 
native can expect neither success nor fortune in the world. It is 
perhaps more, fortunate to have the luminaries wholly uoaspected 
by the malefics, even by the sextile and trine, for they still seem 
to imbibe the qualities of the planets, though in a more moderate 
degree. 

. When well aspected by Jupiter the native, is extremely fortu¬ 
nate j and if hyleg, he will have a good constitution and excellent 
health, always provided that both Jupiter and the Sun be not 
Otherwise afflicted. If in good aspect to Mars, the native is very 
fortunate in war, and meets with military preferment. 

If placed in the mid-heaven, and unafllicted, the native will rise 
to eminent offices : and if at the same time he is in good aspect t* 
Jupiter, he will attain great dignity. 

If in the ascendant, the native is bold and courageous, and, with 
the assistance of good aspects, very fortunate. When the Sun is 
afflicted by Saturn in a nativity, the native is very unfortunate, 
poor-spirited, mean, and dejected, with bad health, and not unfre- 
quently of a consumptive habit. 

If by Mars, he is violent and outrageous, delighting in broils 
and bloodshed, and is often amply rewarded for his conduct. 

In horarv questions, if well dignified, the Sun represents a person 


157 


astrologer’s pocket COMPANION. 

high minded, affable, ambitious of honour, detesting mean and 
sordid actions, prudent, faithful, secret, and of a profound judg¬ 
ment. 

If ill dignified, a proud, boasting, empty person, never to be 
depended on, always aiming at things above his station and 
capacity. 

He describes one of a large, strong, well-made body, broad, 
high forehead, inclining to baldness, large eyes but sharp sight, ‘ 
with bright yellow or flaxen hair, and much beard. 

The only sign allotted to the Sun, both by day and night, is 
Leo, which is termed his house: he is exalted in Aries, and re¬ 
ceives his fall in Libra, and his detriment in Aquarius. He governs 
the fiery triplicity by day. 

Sun in the Twelve Signs. 

Sol in Aries, in which he is exalted, personates a reasonable 
stature, strong and well composed, a good complexion though not 
very clear, light hair, flaxen or yellowish, and gives a noble 
spirit, full of courage and valour, delighting in warlike deeds, and 
gaining victory and renown, formidable to his enemies, illustrious 
and famous in his generation, very often far beyond the capacity 
of his birth. 

Sol in Taurus represents a short, well-set person, with brown 
hair, not very comely, a dark complexion, wide mouth, great nose, 
broad face, bold, confident, sufficiently strong, tinctured with no 
Small share of pride, taking delight in opposing others, and not 
unfrequently victorious. 

Sol in Gemini represents a well-proportioned body, of a san¬ 
guine complexion, above the middle stature, brown hair, a person 


158 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

of a good disposition, affable and courteous to all, not very fortu¬ 
nate in. any affairs, subject to the checks and controlment of 
others, and patiently passing over slight abuses, which shews him 
to be a very mild tempered person. 

Sol in Cancer represents a mean stature, of an ill complexion, 
with some deformity in the face, very unhealthy aspect, brown 
hair, and a lover of females j also an admirer of music, dancing, 
and such kind of recreations, but cares not to follow any employ¬ 
ment, to all kinds of which he appears indisposed. 

Sol in Leo gives a strong, well-proportioned person, of a very 
sanguine complexion, light brown or yellowish hair, full face, and 
large eyes, sometimes a mark or scar on the face ; a very honest 
person, faithful to his friends, punctual in the performance of his 
promise, yet delights to take his pleasure, is ambitious of honour, 
whether in war or otherwise. 

Sol in Virgo gives a person somewhat above the middle stature,. 
a well-proportioned body, not corpulent but rather slender, a 
good complexion, the hair brown and much of it; in disposition 
an ingenious, cheerful person, enjoying all decent recreations, 
particularly those which gratify the ear and the palate. 

Sol in Libra gives an upright, straight body, an oval face and 
ruddy, cheerful complexion, light hair, full eyes, and^ sometimes 
pimples in the face : a very unfortunate person in all or -,most of 
his actions, especially in warlike affairs, unless there be testimo¬ 
nies to the contrary; for therein he is sure to come off with dis¬ 
honour if he escape other dangers, unless his significator be irra¬ 
diated by the benefics. 

Sol in Scorpio gives a square body, full face, cloudy complexion, 
sun-burnt, brown hair, a very fleshy body in general : in disposi- 


ASTROLOGER^ POCKET COMPANION. lo(5 

t.on an ingenious person, but austere and ungentle; ambitious 
of honour, one unwilling to admit an equal, fortunate upon the 
seas or in the practice of physic or chemistry. 

Sol in Sagittarius gives a tall, well-proportioned, comely person, 
-with an oval visage, sanguine complexion and light brown hair, a 
very lofty, proud-spirited person, aiming at great things, and 
too severe in the exercise of his power, yet some exploits are 
performed by him which add much to his commendation and to. 
his renown. 

Sol in Capricorn usually represents a mean stature, a sickly 
complexion, brown hair not curling, an oval face, a spare, thin 
body, not decently composed, but rather disproportioned: in dispo¬ 
sition very just, thereby gaining love and friendship; sometimes 

passionate, a favourer of the female sex, and in general a good 

. 

humoured person. 

Sol in Aquarius describes a person of a middle stature, a corpu¬ 
lent body decently composed, a round, full face, light brown hair, 
and generally clear complexion : the disposition moderately good, 
but subject to ostentation and desirous to bear rule, yet free from 
malicious actions. 

Sol in Pisces gives a person rather short of stature, round face, 
•and an indifferent good complexion, light brown hair, sometime* 
flaxen ; a reasonably corpulent body, a general lover of the 
female sex, addicts himself to gaming and feasting, often to much, 
prejudice, yet a person very harmless, injuring none but himself 
by too much extravagance and prodigality. 



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162 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 

THE ASTROLOGICAL EXCUSE, 

1 . 

\ ' . ; ' ' . 

i. 

See, fair one, humbled, sorrowful, and sad. 
Perplexed, distressed, and -very much ashamed 
Of past misconduct, which I own was bad, 

I come to vow that what I said disclaim’d : 
Believe me, I have been extremely mad. 

My worse than leaden dulness so misnamed 
An elegant, refined, and beauteous dame: 

Upon my life, the Planets were to blame. 

II. 

Bereft of wit, good sense and humour, all 
That I can, after so much mischief, do, 

Is to explain how every nasty ball 

Had intermix’d its iays, until the crew 
Were all to friendship most inimical j 

And then I’ll leave the judgment, fair, to you. 
Indeed, I was a dunce at such a time 
To visit:—but that I always am is—rhyme. 

III. 

That sly old Saturn (mischief making dog !) 

Afflicted Sol and Mercury by square ; 

Oppos’d the Moon , too j thus a double clog 
He plac’d upon my wits, and you, 1 dare 
To say, will call to mind a clumsy log 
Tied to a jaded horse or worn-out marej 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 


163 


And smile (I hope you’ll pity too) that thus. 

What hitherto had hobbled, went still worse ! 

IV. 

But this is little j Venus squared by Mars 
And Jupiter ! the latter ever causes fooling, 

And the former disagreement, quarrels, wars 
With ladies, e’en in heaven. At my schooling 
I was often much surpris’d, and blest my stars 
To think great Jove, who is so fond of ruling, 

My master like, permitted them to quarrel; 

But then I did not understand the moral. 

V. 

’Tis on such days as yesterday, are hatched 
~ Ill nature, bickering, and rage, and strife ; 

Then quarrel first a couple newly match’d, 

The vulgar husband then first beats his wife, 

And first then feels the sweets of being scratch’d ; 

Then the rash murderer first whets his knife! 
Gaunt wickedness strides on throughout the land, 
And treasons, thefts, and burglaries are plann’d. 

VI. 

Then, fair one, deign to pity and forgive; 

Since mortals ehr from lack of caution, say 
Will you not smile and bid your suppliant live ? 

More cautious grown, he’ll shun each evil ray, 
And ever hence to gain your approbation strive 3 
Willchuse, as now, some bless’d, propitious day. 


164 


THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE, OR, 




When Venus sextile shines upon the Moon, 
Resplendent as your eyes, to seek his boon. 



TRANSITS. 

A Transit is the passing of any planet over the body or aspect 
of any promittor or significator in a nativity. That transits have a 
very great effect in nativities is well known to all who have paid 
any attention to the subject j but that they have also at times un¬ 
accountably failed, is equally certain. This failure of transits in 
some cases, and their remarkable truth in others, led us to invest¬ 
igate the cause of the inconsistency. All transits seemed to have 
their proper effect when made on or near the birth day, thus justi 
fying, in a great degree, the opinion which the antients had of the 
revolutional figure, or the time of the Sun's return to the same 
place which he occupied in the radix : the reason now appeared 
plain; all astrological calculations are made from the geocentric 
positions of the planets. We will take an example July 25, 1824: 
if we place the Sun in Leo, and the Earth in Aquarius, Mars w ill 
appear to an observer on the Earth to be in 22° 22' of Libra, but 
to a person placed on the Sun he will seem to be in 3° 55 7 of Sa¬ 
gittarius ; the first is called his geocentric, the last his heliocentric 
position. On Sept. 9, 1824, according to common calculation, 
Venus being then in 22° 22' of Libra, would be said to transit the 
place of Mars; this however we maintain is not the case, the Earth 
having moved from her original position in Aquarius to Pisces ; 
consequently the bearing of the eye is totally altered, the geo- 


* So far as regards the transits of the luminaries. 





astrologer’s pocket companion. 163 

centric position is not the same, and Venus, though apparently in 
the same degree of the zodiac, is not in reality near that point ; 
consequently the transit can have no effect. 

When Jupiter or Vends shall transit the mid-heaven, ascendant, 
or the places of the luminaries, these days will be attended with 
success, provided they are not in evil aspect to Saturn, Mars, or 
Herschel; for then, instead of good, you may expect evil •, but if 
Jupiter or Venus should be in good aspect with each other without 
the interposition of the malefics, the good is then doubled. If 
Herschel, Saturn, or Mars shall transit the mid-heaven, the as¬ 
cendant, or the places of the luminaries, by good aspect, and they 
in favourable aspect to Jupiter ot Venus at the same time without 
any aspect to each other, they produce good to the native: if by 
conjunction, square, or opposition, they portend bad; but if they 
be in good aspect to the benches at the same time, this will soften 
their malignant influence. That planet which gives testimony by 
good aspect, signifies the means by which the native will be 
assisted. Special regard ought to be had to those days in which 
the aspects are most complete. 

Example .—In the nativity of a certain person, born April 18, 
6 h. 45 m. A.M. 1804, when Mars passed by the ascendant in 
Sept. 1817, the native received a violent blow accidentally in bed, 
which greatly endangered her life, and ever after occasioned an im¬ 
pediment in the speech, at which time Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and 
the Sun, were all in evil aspect 


[To be continued.] 



16G 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


PARTRIDGES OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[ Continued from page 143. ] 

EXTRACT VII. 

THE NATIVITY OF OLIVER CROMWELL, LORD 
PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, 

Fairly and faithfully handled according to the true Principle ( s 
of Astrology* 

The time of this great man’s birth, according as he gave it him¬ 
self, was on St. Mark’s day, in the year 1599, summo mane , at 
Huntingdon, whose latitude is 52 degrees and a few minutes j and 
this Is the estimate time given. 

Now the main point is, how we must understand this short sen¬ 
tence, summo mane; and it can, in my judgment, have no other 
meaning than very early in the morning, that is, in the very top 
of the morning, or suddenly after twelve, for so the words seem to 
import; and indeed I can give it no other interpretation but this ; 
for the word summo must be taken adverbially, and derived from 
the adjective sum>/ms> which, in that sense it is here spoken, sig¬ 
nifies the very highest, extream, utmost, top, &c. of the morning, 
though I confess the word morning takes in all the whole time 
from twelve, or midnight, till twelve at noon ; but if he had been 
born after sun-rising, 1 am very apt to believe he would have used 
another way of expressing it, as ante meridiem , Sec .; but if before 
sun-rising, as indeed they all agree he was, then 1 can take it in 
no other smse but this that 1 have already given,—the top of the 
morning; and the time pitched upon is at about five minutes after 
one of the clock; and to that time the planets’ places, both in 
longitude and latitude, are calculated by the Caroline tables, as 
followeth: 


167 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 



Long. 

Plan. 

Lat. 

Plan. 

Par. 

Plan , 

b 

11 47 2 

.A. 

2 

64 n. 

2 

1 

% 

15 4 19 

25 

0 

24 n. 

23 

5 

* 

10 25 29 

r 

1 

4 s. 

3 

9 

5? 

29 51 46 

8 

0 

29 n. 

20 

40 

S 

16 19 25 

8 

0 

18 N. 

18 

3 

O 

13 55 10 

8 

0 

0 

16 

5 

D 

14 35 40 

m 

2 

31 s. 

3 

46 

a 

15 51 28 

AATV 

0 

0 

0 

0 


15 51 28 

SI 

0 

0 

0 

0 


From their latitudes and longitudes, thus found, are their paral¬ 
lels or antiscions obtained, as here you may see : 


h 

5 

2 

A 

5 

2 


24 

58 

X 

24 

58 nv 

u 

10 

48 

25 

10 

48 

kf 

19 

12 

n 

19 

12 f 


7 

55 

V 

7 

55 

& 

22 

5 

we 

22 

5 X 

$ 

2 

10 

n 

2 

10 


27 

50 

25 

27 

50 

3 

20 

56 

8 

20 

56 


9 

4 

a 

9 

4 *** 

D 

20 

31 

«E 

20 

31 

X 

9 

29 

V 

9 

29 =& 

O 

13 

57 

8 

13 

57 

*n 

16 

3 

a 

19 

3 CC7 

Now, 

to gain the cusps 

of the twelve houses, I 

proceed in the 


method following : By taking the R. A. of the Sun and the R. A. 
of time, and adding them together, gives the R. A. of the M. C.j 
to which, adding thirty degrees, gives the oblique ascension of the 


eleventh house; and so, by the addition of thirty degrees, we gain 
the other six of the oriental houses, as in the following example : 

R. A. of the Sun. 41 26 

R. A. of Time .......... 196 14 

R. A. of the M. C. 237 40 = lit 29° 52* 

Add. 30 0 

O. A. of the 11th. 267 40 =s £ 18° 

Add. 30 0 

O. A. of the 12th. 297 40 = Vf 5° 

Add. 30 0 

O. A. of the ascendant.... 327 40 = Vf 26° 19* 

Add. 30 0 

O. A. of the 2d house.... 357 40 = X 26° 

Add. 30 0 

O. A. of the 3d house.... 27 40 = £ 6° 






















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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIUCE} OR, 


Many of our modern professors “have made a great noise about 
taking the minutes and seconds for the cosps of every house, 
which I think are both useless and impertinent; for what use do 
they make of theih when they have taken them ? None, las l 
know : however, I will give you a short example, and leave the 
rest for those that think them useful. 

For the M. C. I take the difference between the two arcs, 
greater and lesser ; then the It. A. of the M.C., and that is 62 ; 
then 1 take^he difference between the next less and the R. A., 
and that is 54 *, then 1 say, by the rule of proportion, If 69 gives 
60, 54 shall give 52, which leaves the cusp of the tenth in 29 deg. 
52 minutes of Scorpio. 

And for the cusp of the ascendant 1 also take the difference, as 
before, between the two arcs, greater and lesser than the oblique 
ascension of the ascendant, and that is 44 minutes : and also be¬ 
tween the lesser arc and the oblique ascension, which is 14 mi¬ 
nutes $ then I say, as before, by the rule of proportion, If 44 min. 
gives 60 min., 14 min. shall give 19 minutes, which tells us that 
the cusp of the ascendant resteth in 26 degrees and 19 min. of 
Capricorn, under the pole of 52°. I omit to take notice of the 
equation for those few minutes above 52°, the pole of birth ; and 
therefore the Figure, without any further operation, is as fol- 
loweth 

[We refer our Readers to No. VI, p. 109, for the Figure .] 

Having finished the table of directions, give me leave to say a 
word or two about the directions of the Sun, as it is delivered and 
approved by the best authors in that way and method. The di¬ 
rections of the Sun under the Earth are different from those above 
the Earth, and that in two ways : First, by being in the crepuscu- 
line circles ; and secondly, by being in the obscure arc j and the 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


169 


cause of this difference is from the Sun’s bemg nearer to, or far* 
ther from, our horizon or hemisphere, or rather (which is more 
proper) according to the intension of his light toward our hemi¬ 
sphere ; for when he is in the crepusculine circles he doth much 
more affect us, and his directions are more forcible than when he 
is in the obscure arc : the main thing is, the part proportional for 
the occurrent. But in that for the crepusculine circles, ascend¬ 
ing or descending, the chiefest thing to be obtained is the ortive 
difference, and both these are to be applied as directed, to com- 
pleatand perfect those directions, with the real and natural mo¬ 
tion thereof. The prorogatory virtue of the Sun or Moon remains 
immovable in inundo , moveable in the zodiac, which is plain, be¬ 
cause the nocturnal arc is either extended or contracted, according 
as they, by their directional motion, shall change and alter their 
declination, and by the same reason make their distances more or 
less from the two next angles ; from whence ariseth that diversity 
and variety of operation in working the Sun’s directions true, 
which is a mystery not known to many. 

But yet further to illustrate this truth ; suppose the 15th degree 
of Aries should ascend under the elevation of 52°, at which time 
about 6° of Cancer will be on the Imum Celi; the semi-nocturnal 
arc of the end of Aries in horary trines is 75° 30', of Taurus 63° 6', 
and of the end of Gemini is 18°, which is the 20th part of the 
whole circle, which in one quadrant must of necessity form ano¬ 
ther oblique arc of difference in the distance between the 30th 
degree Aries (where we will suppose the Sun to be), and the end 
of Gemini, the place of a promittor, either body or aspect ; and 
that the nocturnal circle of the 30th degree of Aries, from which 
the Sun moves by direction, is greater by 18° than the 30th degree 


170 


THE STIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

of Gemini, to which^joint the Sun must come to meet the pro- 
mittor; and this is such a difference, that neither the circles of 
position, nor the horary times, will or can regulate, because they 
are both formed from the same principle; and the reason of it 
really is that of which I spoke before, that the prorogatory virtue 
remains fixed in mundo, but moveable in zodiaco; and by reason 
of that mobility, it makes a variation in its circle by reason of its 
dedination; for at that time before-mentioned of lo degrees of 
Aries ascending, the Sun being in 30 degrees of the same sign, 
under the pole of 52°, the distance of the Sun from the ascendant 
will be 6 degrees 38 minutes ; but when the direction is finished 
to the 30th degree of Gemini, the Sun will be distant from the 
ascendant but 5 degrees 3 minutes ; so that your own reason will 
tell you, if his distance grows less, his pole must grow greater ; and 
then where is the truth of your direction ? And let this suffice to 
have spoken of the ground of direction which hath fallen in by 
accident, it not being intended at first; perhaps I may take a time 
to discourse more at large on this subject. 

The Sun (as is agreed on by all), when he is above the Earth, 
exerts his power more, and his influence is greater, and more ef¬ 
fectual to us in all cases, whether he be significator or promittor, 
than when he is under the Earth : if so, then when he is under the 
Earth, by how much nearer he is to the horizon, by so much the 
more (especially in the crepusculine arc) the power and influx of 
his light and virtue affects our meridian ; and according to the in¬ 
tension of his light, so is his vital and prorogatory power. 


[To be continued.] 



astrologer’s pocket companion. 


171 


TO THE. EDITOR OF « THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

In going over the calculations of the Planets’ 
places at the time of birth of the present King, as published in 
“The Straggling Astrologer,” I found a trifling error of four 
degrees and THREE minutes in the place of the planet Herschet, 
w hich he says was in 6° 50' of the sign ‘Y 5 , on the 12th of August, 
1762 ; whereas, the true geocentric longitude of that planet 
was 12° 53' of the above sign. The mean longitude, it will 
be found, was just <Y* 12° 46' 55", from which, if we deduct 
the equation arising from the mean anomaly, together with those 
corrections that are to be allowed for the disturbing forces of the 
Other planets, we have the longitude in the orbit, which, being re¬ 
duced to the ecliptic, gives the true heliocentric longitude in 
10° 32' 24.5 ,r of the sign Aries. 

I shall only observe, Sir, that this error should be noticed by 
those persons (if, perchance, there be any such) who place any 
confidence in the Straggler’s knowledge of practical astronomy, 
which appears to be of that peculiar stamp that his astrological 
acquirements smack of. Perhaps he was favoured with the calcu¬ 
lation hv some friend from the academic shades of Norwoods 
I remain, Sir, 

Your humble Servant, 

TYRO. 

l\S. The latitude was 40' M" S. 



172 


THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE, &C. 


TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

T. H. ML, of Red-lion Square, may be assured that it is the 
intention of the Proprietors to continue the Astronomical Tables 
up to the present time. 

T. M. and Mary L-— have only given the time to the even 
hour: we must inform them that it is essentially necessary the 
time should be given with the greatest exactness ; and we cannot 
pretend to comply with their requests without this is done. 

W. H. B.’s question reflects credit upon his acuteness. Ptolemy, 
as he must be well aware, considered the Earth to be the centre 
of the universe. Now this, though a gross error in astronomy, 
does not in the least affect astrology ; for the planets act upon the 
Earth, not according to their real but their apparent position : the 
luminaries attract the water, not as they are seen from the Sun, 
but as they are beheld from the Earth. 

Declination is so easily found by the proper tables, or by trigo¬ 
nometry (at the same time the size of our page would prevent its 
admission in the Astronomical Tables), that we must decline 
complying with A Subscriber’s request. 

R. D. is received, and may perhaps be attended to in a fu&ure 
Number; but at present we are completely overwhelmed with 
these applications. 


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174 


TUB SPIRIT OP PARTJUwjb j Or, 

t * *■ ■ •' n * ' ™ 

I , 

TO THE EDITOR OF “THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE.’' 

f T * 4 ^ 1 *" S ** 

Sir, 

I was not aware till the other day that the Nativity 
of the Duke of Bordeaux had been published ; but upon reading 
the cover of a book on astrology I found it amongst the articles it 
contained, though I have not seen it, or the remarks upon it, 
therefore do not know whether what I have sent corresponds 
either as to time or the remarks made upon it. I erected 
mine soon after the birth, for the time given in the public 
papers that announced it. As it has been published, 
it may be perhaps not thought worth inserting in your 
work ; but as the publication of the nativities of public characters 
tends to elucidate the science more than private ones, because 
the events which happen to them are universally known, then* 
cata be no harm in repeating it in “ The Spirit of Partridge ,” 
which is a work likely to be more extensively diffused than any 
work written expressly for the student in astrology. I think also 
that the public are more likely to be convinced by the fulfilment 
of a prediction than by reasons assigned for events already past; 
therefore, if my judgment is correct, the present; figure is likely to 
be of advantage, as the events referred to are not very distant, and 
are of the most satisfactory description. 

Wishing you success in your undertaking, I remain, Sir, 

Your most obedient servant, 

Islington, Oct. 11, 1824. 


astiwxog&r’s pocket companion. 


to 

Upon inspection of this figure, I should scarcely think the native 
would survive childhood. The Sun, Saturn, and Mars are all in 
violent signs : the Moon, who is hyleg, is afflicted by the quartile 
of Saturn and the Sun, who is much afflicted by being in opposi¬ 
tion to Saturn. The Moon is further afflicted by Mars and Hers- 
ehel being within 3° of the sesquiquadrate of the former, and nearly 
in opposition tothelatter: thus she is configurated to all the male- 
fles, without being supported by either of the benefics, unless the 
application to the trine of Jupiter may be so considered $ but I 
fear that is too far distant to do much good. 

! think the united influence of those configurations, if it does 
not portend a, violent death, indicates but a short life. The first 
evil direction took place about the age of nine months; viz. the 
Moon to the square of the Sun in the zodiac; then follows a 
train of evil directions, commencing sooa after five years ofrage, 
and continuing till nearly six years and six months, within which 
period 1 think there will be great dang r, unless the Moon’sappli- 
eation to the trine of Jupiter, should be thought sufficient td 
avert, which I confess is not my opinion, more especially as it is 
followed by the Moon to the square of the Sun. 


Directions . 

□ 0 zodiac 

Arcsi 

0 44 

Measure of Time. 

According to Placidus, Naibod, 

Oyrs. 9 m. Oyrs. 9 m. 

@ g mundo 

5 

6 

5 

4 5 2 

0 g Ij zodiac 

5 " 

14 

5 

5 3 3 

) g y mundo 

5 

23 

5 ' 

7 5 5 

^ □ © zodiac 

6 

12 

6 

5 € 3 

J A zodiac 

12 

51 


i ' 

} □ O tnundo 

15 

51 



Note —The time 

is-calculated both 

agreeably to Placidas and 


Naibod, not knowing which is preferred. Z. 


176 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

t, £ , / . :■ 

[Continued from page 159.] 

ON VENUS. 


Venus is the brightest planet in our system; as its orbit is less 
than that of the Earth, it can never appear above 48° distant from 
the Sun. 

Venus, when possessing the greatest share in the formation of 
the mind of a native, inclines him to music, poetry, painting, 
sculpture, drawing, dancing, and all elegant arts and amusements : 
the native is good humoured, virtuous, kind, beneficent, and cha¬ 
ritable ; fond of females, by whom he is generally beloved and ad¬ 
mired, though rather deficient in firmness and resolution. It must 
be observed that the nature of Venus is liable to a very material 
alteration by conjunction or evil aspect of the malefics ; for in¬ 
stead of good, she then seems to produce positive evil; causing 
extravagance, dissipation, ruin, and waste of property, through 
gaming, drinking, and women : when in the ascendant, she gives 
health, gain by women, and general prosperity: when on the me¬ 
ridian, she gives honour and preferment, by means of women, and 
the native will generally receive favour and protection from great 
ladies. 

In horary questions, Venus describes a person of middle size, 
very elegant deportment, fair and lovely complexion, beautiful 
features, engaging address, bright sparkling eyes, the hair light 
brown or c'hesnut. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


177 


I 


If well dignified, the patron is affable, friendly, affectionate, 
often engaged in love, and consequently prone to jealousy, excell¬ 
ing in music, painting, dancing, and every elegant accomplish¬ 
ment. 

If ill dignified, he is lustful, extravagant, dissipating his pro¬ 
perty with infamous women, a gamester and drunkard, and pos¬ 
sessed of some few good qualities, but these are more than over¬ 
balanced by the practice of many vices. 

Venus in the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. 

i: ' > 

Venus in Aries represents persons of a middle stature, more 
slender than fat, the complexion good, the hair light, the face ge¬ 
nerally remarkable for some scar or blemish, of pensive disposi- 
lions, and subject to misfortunes in their undertakings, and like¬ 
wise in those in which they may be concerned for others, because 
in this sign Venus is extremely debilitated and unfortunate, being 
in her detriment: notwithstanding this unpropitious position, we 
are not to rashly adjudge persons signified by Venus in this sign 
as destined to so harsh and cruel a fortune as neither to be bene¬ 
ficial to themselves or others ; so precipitate a judgment would be 
highly ungenerous. We must take a proper survey of the whole, 
and perhaps we shall observe some auspicious configurations, some 
favouring ray of Jupiter, some happy familiarity with Sol, Luna, 
and Mercury, potent, angular, and dignified. Above all, the Moon 
and Mercury must be regarded, if free from affliction, and in some 
familiarity with each other, and Venus unvitiated by Saturn and 
Mars, we may indulge a rational hope of those under'-Venus in 
Aries succeeding in their undertakings. 


I 


/ 


ITS *nt>B wmiT w tart* mot j 

'V-Cntrs in Taurus forms persons courely, somewhat fat, of a de* 
cent make, ‘but a. mean stature, ruddy or sanguine completion, 
and brown hair, df a mild temper, and very whining, fascinating 
disposition, in general fortunate, desirous to oblige all, and averse 
to do an injury to anyone; consequently entitled to universal 
respect, favour, and affection. This pleasing description willonfy 
hold good if no malefic confi gurations at birth affect it •; and even 
though Venus may not be aspected by the malefics, nor be in 
parallel with them ; and even though she may receive the general 
rays of Jupiter, yet if the angles be afflicted by Saturn and Mars, 
particularly the mid-heaven, the persons under Venus in this sign 
must not expect to escape the evils inseparable from the com¬ 
mixture of starry influences. 

Venus in Gemini generally forms persons of a middle stature, 
lather tall and slender, but well proportioned and straight bodies, 
the hair brown, the complexion tolerably good and clear $ in dis¬ 
position good-natured and affectionate, benevolent and charitable, 
quickly moved by objects of sorrow and distress, and Teadily In¬ 
duced to do acts of kindness, endowed with the love of justice, and 
rarely guilty of a dishonourable action. 

Venus in Cancer usually designates persons of a short stature, 
rather corpulent, the face round, the complexion sickly and pallid, 
the hair of a light'hue, the disposition prone to inactivity and idle¬ 
ness, too much addicted to jovial participations of Bacchus, and 
pleasures not always creditable, yet ingeniously capable of assum¬ 
ing the most plausible appearances of character and conduct, and 
of earnestly seeming to be what they really are npt, full of muta¬ 
bility and unsteadiness. 

Venus in Leo forms persons rather tall, of well compacted bo- 



ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPANION. 


m 


•lies, round face, full eye, and dear complexion, though sometimes 
freckled, the hair light brown or flaxen, a id often sandy red, of 
dispositions by no means exceptionable, moderately passionate, 
Very susceptible of auger, but soon reconciled, very generous and 
ttee, Somewhat tinctured with pride; upon the whole sociably^nd 
good natufedly inclined, and subject to frequent indispositions of 
body, but not seriously or with much detriment. It must he ob¬ 
served that these bodily affections depend on the concurrence oP 
other influences With Venus in this sign; such general descriptions 
afe uneonclusite. 

Venus in Virgo designates tall, well- proportioned persons, of sad 
brown or black hair, of oval faces and dark complexions, but inge¬ 
nious!, and happily endowed with oratorical powers, of very as¬ 
piring minds, subtle and active, yet subject in general tb misfor¬ 
tunes, rarely accomplishing the object of their desires and expec¬ 
tations. 

Venus in Libra forms tall, upright persons, of a graceful sym¬ 
metry and proportion, of brown hair, sanguine or ruddy com¬ 
pletion, the face Sometimes freckled, with dimples in the cheeks, 
of an obliging and courteous disposition, generally beloved, respect¬ 
ed in their dealings, and endearing in their conversations. This 
will prove true if Vefuis be hot marred by Saturn or Mars, and 
Mercury and Luna do uot counteract her influence. 

Vehiis in Scorpio represents persons of a well set body, Tather 
corpulent, 6*fa broad face, dhsklsh complexion, and sad brown or 
black hair, but of very exceptionable characters, guilty Of many 
vicious propensities, thereby led intO the commission of almost 
eVeiy species of immorality, of a very contentious and envious 
disposition. The evil Will be aggravated by the bad, and perhaps 


180 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

eren by the good aspects of the malefics, while the condition will 
be much mended by the conjunction or good aspect of Jupiter. 

Venus in Sagittarius forms persons rather well proportioned, 
the complexion moderately clear, somewhat sanguine, the hair 
brown, and the visage oval, of a generous disposition, rather tinc¬ 
tured with pride, and somewhat passionate, yet in general ex¬ 
tremely good natured, and very obliging, deserving of respect, and 
inclining to laudable amusements, and upon the whole fortunate 
in life. Should Saturn (perhaps Herschel) be in aspect to Venus, 
the above description will be greatly changed, both with regard to 
the form and mental qualities ; the mind, more especially if Sa¬ 
turn dispose Mercury and the Moon, or even one of them ; 
the form, particularly if the ascendant be afflicted, and free from 
the benign power of Jupiter and Venus. 

Venus in Capricorn designates persons of a mean stature, the 
complexion pale and sickly, the face thin or lean, of dispositions 
by no means the most unexceptionable; if males, prone to an in¬ 
discriminate love of women, and if females extremely delighting 
in the company and caresses of men, the votaries of pleasure, sub¬ 
ject to many reverses of fortune. 

Venus in Aquarius forms handsome, well proportioned persons, 
somewhat corpulent, of a clear and sanguine complexion, the 
hair generally brown, but sometimes of a flaxen hue, of exceed¬ 
ingly good dispositions, full of courtesy and kindness, obliging to 
all, generally beloved, fond of polite recreations, of peaceful 

habits, happily qualified with the love of virtuous inclinations, 
« • ' 
and favoured with the smiles of fortune in their pursuits. 

Venus in Pisces forms persons of a middle stature, inclining to 
be fleshy or plump, the complexion moderately good, between 


ASTROLOGER’S POCKET COMPANION. 181 

pale and ruddy, the hair brown, sometimes of a flaxen colour, the 
face with a dimple in the chin ; in general of a good natured dispo¬ 
sition, mild and quiet, just in their dealings, of ingenious minds, 
but rather wavering in their resolutions, and moderately fortunate 
in life. 

Too much care cannot be taken to consider every aspect to a 
planet: if afflicted, good cannot be expected from it, neither •will 
the evil be so great when the planet is well aspected. Venus, al¬ 
though good when unafflicted,will produce evil when ill aspected. 
The old adage, that “Evil communications corrupt good manners,’’ 
is nowhere better deserving of attention than in astrology. 

[To be continued.] 


LIFE OF ROGER BACON. 

, ‘ v {.. \; j 

[Continued from p. 133.] 

Bacon’s printed Works are—1, Epistola Fratris Rogeri Baconis 
de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et deNullitate Magiae, Paris, 
1542, 4to; Basil, 1593, 8vo—2, Opus Majus, London, 1733, fol. 
published by Dr. Jebb—3, Theosaurus Chemicus, Franc/. 1603 and 
1620. These Works of Bacon contain a considerable number 
of Essays, which have been considered as distinct books in the 
catalogue of his,writings by Bole, Pitts, &c.; but there remain 
also in different libraries several Manuscripts not yet published. 
By an attentive perusal of his works, the reader is astonished to 

K 2 



382 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 

find that this groat luminary of the 13th century was deeply skilled 
in all the arts and sciences, and in many of them made the most 
important intentions and discoveries. He was, says Dr. Peter 
Shaw, beyond all comparison the greatest man of his time, and he 
might, perhaps, stand in competition with the greatest that hate 
appeared since. It is wonderful, considering the ignorant age in 
which he lived, how he came by such a depth of knowledge on all 
subjects. His writings are composed with that elegance, concise¬ 
ness, and strength, and adorned with such just and exquisite ob¬ 
servations on nature, that among all the Chemists we do not know 

I , v * ' - 

his equal: in,his chemical writings he attempts to show how im¬ 
perfect metals may be ripened into perfect ones, making, with 
Geber, mercury the common basis of all metals, and sulphur the 
cement. His other physical writings show no less genius and 
force of mind : in his treatise of the secret works of art and nat ure, 
he shows that a person perfectly acquainted with the manner ob¬ 
served by Nature in her operations would be able to rival, and even 
to surpass her. 

From a perusal of his works, adds the same author, we find Ba¬ 
con was no stranger to many of the capital discoveries of the pre¬ 
sent and past ages; gunpowder he certainly knew ; thunder and 
lightning he tells us may be produced by art, for that sulphur, 
nitre, and charcoal, when mixed together in due proportion, and 
closely confined and fired, they yield a loud report: a mofe pre¬ 
cise description of gunpowder cannot be given in words. He also 
mentions a sort of uncxtinguishable fire, prepared by art, which 
shows he was not unacquainted with phosphorus ; and that he had 
a notion of the rarefaction of the air, and the structure of an air 
pump, is past contradiction. He was the miracle, says Dr. Friend, 
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making of them. That the telescope was not unknown to him> 
appears from a passage where he says he was able to form glasses 

in such a manner with respect to our sight and the object, that the 

\ 

rays shall be refracted and reflected whenever we plfease, so that we 
may see a thing under what angle we think proper, either near or 
at a distance, and be able to read the smallest letters at an incredi¬ 
ble distance, and to count the dust and sand, on account of thfe 
greatness of the angle under which we see the object, and also 
that we shall scarce see the greatest bodies near us, by reason of 
the smallness of the angle under which we view them. His Skill 
in astronomy was amazing ; he discovered that error which occa* 
<ioned the reformation of the calendar, one of the greatest efforts, 
according to Dr. Jebb, of human industry: and his plan for cof- 
recting it was followed by Pope Gregory’s amendment, which 
reaches no higher than the Nicene Council. 


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384 THB SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE 3 OR, 

PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[ Continued from page 170, ] 

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EXTRACT VIII. 

But now, in this nativity, though the Sun is under the Earth, 
yet his accidents are such that will not admit him to any general rule 
that I have seen in order to direction; for at the time of his birth 
we find the Sun in the third house, distant from the ascendant 
62 degrees 9 minutes ; and in that point of the zodiac his obscure 
arc is 1 hour 44 minutes, and his crepusculine arc is 2 hours 
and 49 minutes, which together make up Iris nocturnal arc 4 hours 
33 minutes. Hence you see at the time of birth we find the Sun 
within the limits of his obscure arc, and by that he ought to be 
directed so long as he hath any, which terminates in the beginning' 
of Gemini, when he is increased in his north declination about 
4 degrees and 8 minutes j so that his nocturnal arc is abdicated, 
and he within the crepusculine arc, where he ought to be directed 
also, different from the former method : but at that time also the 
method mentioned is obstructed, for the nocturnal arc is but one 
continued crepusculum, and admits of no operation; because the 
ortive difference is not to be gained as in other nativities j that is, 
in other nativities of different positions, or different elevations, or 
at other seasons of the year $ for all nativities of the same position 
and elevation are liable to the very same circumstance, when the 
Sun is near the solstitial tropic, and under the Earth, as here in this 
now under consideration. 

Now the whole curiosity and difficulty (as I said before) in work¬ 
ing directions of this sort and nature, is to gain the true ortive dif¬ 
ference that is proportionably allowable for each arc of distance, 


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185 


and to apply it according as it ought to the arc of direction, by 
which means the true direction is produced and obtained. But 
this cannot be performed in this nativity, and therefore I will pro¬ 
pound another way, which to me seems rational in this case j and 
that is, to direct the Sun as if he were in the crepusculine circles, 
without the ortive difference; for though we cannot direct the 
Sun as he ought to be, yet we ought to pursue a tract and method 
of truth as far and as near as it is possible, in order to obtain what 
we expect from the distance of the arc of direction; which if it be 
done (for all the preceding directions of the Sun in the zodiac are 
performed, kccoiding to Ptolemy, by the oblique ascension, taken 
under the pole of position, and those directions in tnundo are per¬ 
formed in the usual way of proportion, &c. without the obscure 
. 

arc), we shall find a considerable difference when we compare the 
directions following, which are wrought after that method, with 
those performed after the usual manner, and inserted in the table 
of directions preceding. For, indeed, the directions of the Sun 
there wrought have no great matter to do in the public transac¬ 
tions and mutations of this native’s life, unless we do allow (as a 
certain bounce among us hath done) that bad directions in violent 
and eminent nativities give glorious and eminent effects t and that 
they do not shew their effects by injuring the native , but those who 
are his enemies , and with whom he doth contend ; which is a pretty 
sort of cant, that the effects of the stars shall, in one nativity, from 
the same ray and direction, give sickness, loss of honour, impri-? 
sonment, and perhaps death, in the conclusion, to the native $ and 
in another nativity, to his enemies only : a very likely story, and 
j ust such stuff as the rest of his is, who hath imposed upon the 
world. 

But as to the Sun, he is the principal significator of all honour, 


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tttE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

grandeur, and reputation, as 'Wellby direction as by position ; for, 
as'the Moon is significator of all common and general actions of 
human life, so the Sun Is significator principally of those of ho* 
iloiir, &c. Hence we may Very well expect the Sun to give some¬ 
thing considerable in this great man’s nativity ; for I think every 
orte allots the accidents and contingencies of human life are 
brolight to pass and produced by directions, as the only effect of 
riidtion ; and therefore, h*. this native hath had great and prodi- 
gious effects, so the directions ought to be something in propor¬ 
tion to What was produced ; for from pdor, weak directions there 
can be but small and inconsiderable effects produced. However, 
1 do not lay this down as absolutely necessary to be followed ; 1> 
only propound it, as being an Unusual case, that you, whoever 
you are that understand it, may judge which is the most proba¬ 
ble, though I am satisfied that the directions of the Sun in the 
crepusculine circles are true : but in this case we have no rule, and 
therefore this method is offered as a supply to that defect; that 
i«, whether the Sun, directed after the manner and method when 
he is hi the crepuScUline circles, without the ortiVe difference 
(when ft cannot be had, as here), will riot nearly correspond to 
truth, as in other parts of the zodiac, where it can be taken, til 
which thing I submit myself to those skilful in that way and me¬ 
thod, and only enter It down as an esSay to 

A JUDGMENT ON THE PRECEDING NATIVITY, AFTER THfe 
MANNER OF THE TWELVE HOUSES. 

Length of Life .—The first thing I shall consider is the length or 
shortness erf the native’s life, and, from the positions in general) 
what time may be probably assigned for the number of his years - : 
yet 1 know tery Well there can be no positive judgment fctvttvon 


ASTRO r,0 CE R*S POCKfeT fctfWt\ANtOV. 

t^at point, because the number of his years depends on the dis¬ 
tance between the giver oflife ahd the anaretic point, as to'the 
certainty of their number and the time of expiration *, but yet 
give me leave to tell you, there must be arguments of a long life 
In the position, Or else I shall be very sparing in his number of 
years ; and, to be yet 'more plain with you, the arguments of lortg 
life are such good rays and positions that reborate and fortify 
the giver of life ; and this is the more when the hileg is naturally 
strong, and well placed in the figure. 

The Moon is Hileg. —And in this nativity we find the hileg an¬ 
gular, intrine to the Sun and Mercury, in sextile to Jupiter, tui& 
also in reception with Mercury ; and besides these, we find the 
Sun and Mercury in sextile to the ascendant, and in sextile to 
Jupiter likewise, and is in his exaltation in Cancer, and no ill rays 
of Saturn and Mars any ways afflicting either Sun, Moon, or as- 
cendantj so that we may rationally conclude the native was 
designed by nature for a considerable long life j and not only long, 
but also an healthy one. I know there are some, according to the 
usual cant, would tell you, that the square of the three superiors 
from those cardinal signs should give him bad lungs, with pains in 
the head, the vertigo, lethargy, &c. y imperfections in his reins, 
gravel, stone, and abundance more of those things, had they seen 
his nativity before he had grown to years of ripeness. But 1 dare 
venture to say, that he had none of these, the gravel excepted : 
but they that would know more of these things, let them read 
carefully the 17th chapter of the 3d book of Ptolemy’s Quadripar¬ 
tite, de Ixsionilus et in or bis Caporum. 

Understanding and Judgment.** The native** understanding, 
judgment, with all the faculties Of the soul, depending on the po¬ 
sition and configurations of Mercury, as one well says, QualitaUx 


188 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE £ OR, 

animcty que proprie svnt mentis , et raliocinationis y sumuntur in sin* 
gulis ex Mercurii conditione ; which, if true, then hath our native 
a most excellent position for intellectual abilities, for his Mercury 
is as strong as in any figure I have ever seen. For here is Mer¬ 
cury just past the conjunction of the Sun, and in his'oriental 
occidentality, increasing in light and motion, in reception with 
the Moon j but that which is the greatest, and most to be observ¬ 
ed, is, that the Moon beholds him with a trine, and Jupiter with a 
sextile; and what is more, Jupiter also beholds him by a mun¬ 
dane square, so that they are really configurated both in zodiaco 
and mundo ; and besides, we find him in a fixed sign, in the house 
of Venus, and also in zodiacal parallel with her, in sextile to the 
ascendant. These positions must be allowed to give all the great 
and excellent qualifications that are requisite to make a counsel¬ 
lor, a statesman, and a soldier: here is no rashness, but resolution 
upon deliberate consideration; here is no timidity, nor yet un¬ 
steadiness in judgment; here is no dulness nor stupidity, but a 
natural and native sharpness of fancy at all times, fit either for 
enquiry or council. In a word, the Moon in Virgo, in trine to 
Mercury in Taurus, is, without doubt, the most agreeable posi¬ 
tion to give a good, quick, apprehensive fancy and judgment.— 
Vide Ptolemy Quadripartite , lib. iii, cap. 18. 

Of his Riches , &—I shall consider his riches from the part of 
Fortune, as the general significator of wealth ; yet before 1 begin 
my judgment thereon, give me leave to premise a word or two: 
1 would not have you think, because that he arrived to the govern¬ 
ment of a nation, and had the use and command of the kingdom’s 
money and treasure, that I call him rich, for I look on that to be 
but the common attendant of his honour and grandeur, and not 
the excellence of his fortune to riches j for a king may have vast 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


189 


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sums of money and yet be no rich man, as we have seen in King 
Charles the Second ; and a king may have far lesser sums than 
ever h« had, and yet be a very rich man, and lay by him a great 
treasure for his own use and posterity, distinct from the nation and 
people, as was King Henry Seventh. Therefore I would not be 
thought to build his honour upon his riches, which is indeed no 
such thing, but that kind of his wealth was really founded on his 
honour and grandeur; for the sword was the anvil upon which he 
wrote out his fortune, his honour, &c.; and as that always brings 
a certain charge, so it usually brings a supply of fortune to defray 
it. And therefore I shall consider his fortune distinctly and 
separately from that which came by his honour, and what it 
might have been had he continued in that station wherein 
he was bqrn and bred. Ad rem vero y the part of Fortune (as I 
said before) is the only significator allowed by Ptolemy-for 
riches and fortune in the world, and that we find about two 
degrees distant from the cusp of the sixth house in Cancer, in 
sextile to Venus, and disposed of by the Moon and Jupiter, all 
which are strong and potent, and do certainly promise (whoever 
hath such a position) riches, and plenty of the things of fortune, 
and this, by various ways and means. And I ana of opinion, that 
it being in Cancer, a tropical sign, doth not add a little to the ad¬ 
vantage. Ptolemy says, Lib. 4, Caput de facultatibus: Jupiter per 
Jidelitalem, perfecturusy 8$c. That when Jupiter gives his assistance 
to the mumpsimus of the third and fourth houses, as not to con¬ 
demn it; yet I do say, that this doctrine of the great Ptolemy is 
most rational and consentaneous to nature, and what I can expe¬ 
rimentally justify in some hundreds of nativities. 

[To be continued.] 



190. TK.E SPIRIT OF PAJITRIPCE ; OR> 

ARGOL’S APHORISMS. 

[Continued from p. 82. ] 

If the Sun in a decumbiture be in Saturn’s place in the nativity, 
or the opposite place, or the square, or antiscion, whether com¬ 
manding or obeying ; or in the decumbiture, apy ray or aspect of 
Saturn afflict, the sickness of the native proceeds from cold hu¬ 
mours abounding, melancholy, or such as proceed from the nature 
of Saturn, too tedious to enumerate. If Mars afflicts the Sun. the 
disease : arises from bilious humours, heated blood, or such as are 
of the nature of Mars. If Jupiter were ill affected, and lord of the 
ascendant or of the year, and afflicted by the malefics, or posited 
ip. the 6th, the disease proceeds from superfluity of blood, or 
watery humours, inflammations, diseased liver, and other causes, 
according to his nature. If Venus afflict, the disease proceeds 
from venereal complaints, as repletion, and the like. If Mercury 
afflict, from affections of the brain, epilepsy, cough, and other 
diseases ascribed to Mercury. If the Moon afflict, according t*> 
her nature the disease arises from lethargy, heaviness in the head, 
apd similar distempers. 

Saturn with the Sun in Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, signs hot 
and dry, the disease produces hectic fevers; in Cancer, Scorpio, 
and Pisces, cold and moist signs, it causes fluxes, pains in the 
joints, and the like; in earthy signs, Taurus, Virgo, and Capri¬ 
corn, melancholy, quartan agues, and other chronical distempers ; 
in fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, and Aquarius, fevers durable, subtil 
distempers, quartan agues, and the like, whether more particular^ 
ly fevers, leprosy, diseases in the joints, the gout in the hands, 
feet, or hips. Saturn in moveable signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, and 
Capricorn, brings a flow of humours which weakens the gene¬ 
rative parts; in common signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and 
Pisces, rick ness is soon alleviated, and diseases change, even if 


ASTROLOGER S POCKET COMPANION, 


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chronic. If Saturn be with Venus combust, or with violent stars, 
or in Leo or Scorpio, it denotes pestilent destructive fevers. 

Mars found in fiery signs.afflicting the luminaries, the ascendant 
or its lord, causes pestilential ap,d inflammatory fevers,and dpnotes 
diseases q( this kind: if Saturn join§ with them, there will be 
melancholy and black bile ; if Mars be in the 6 th or 12th house, 
he will cause ardent pestilential fever, particularly in fiery signs 
Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius ; in moveable signs it causes acute 
fevers* which are soon terminated, although for the most part 
fatally ; in common signs, acute, sudden, reiterated fever, and 
generally relapses. Saturn, for the most part, gives long, and 
Mars short diseases; and Mars with the Sun causes scarlet fever, 
and continual or putrid fevpr. 

Jctpiter in fiery signs causes scarlet fever, but inclining to pu¬ 
trid; Venus in, fiery signs* a quotidian or daily fever; with, Mars, 
also putridity, arising from phlegm. Mercury in fiery signs de¬ 
notes the fever to be more, composed ; a? ajsq tbe Moon in putrid 
gen, 



The Moon in opposition to Mars in the said fiery signs portends 
infectious fevers of the malignant kind, and deadly distempers, 
with a rapid teripinatien ; with Mars in aerial signs, Gemini, 
Libra, and Aquarius, particularly in Gemini, causes danger., from 
iron or other martial things. The Moon in Aries in the 8th, 
causes brain fevers and inflammation in the head. 

Planets in watery signs shew putrid fevers, particularly if com¬ 
bust ; in earthy signs, however, they do not cause putridity. 

Planets in signs of short ascension* Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, 
Aties, Taurus, and Gemini, denote short distempers; in those of 
long ascension, Cancer,Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and .Sagittarius, 
long, and chronic diseases, obstinate fevers; and this more fre¬ 
quently happens if the Sun afflicts when advancing in the sign, Leo. 


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An idea may also be formed, in a similar way, of the part 
affected, from the sign in which the lord of the ascendant is 
placed, according to the part of the body governed by such sign ; 
for instance, in Aries the disease will be in the head; if in Gemini, 

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in the arms or parts subject to Gemini; and judge of the other 
signs in a similar way, as they govern the human frame. 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

We feel extremely obliged to Z, of Islington, for the Nativity 
of the Infant Due de Bourdeaux, and beg to inform him that it has 
not yet been published by any one; therefore we have taken the 
earliest opportunity of inserting it according to his wish. 

I. P. of Hoxton is received, and will be attended to in our next. 
We should be able to give a more satisfactory answer were we in 
possession of the date. 

J. R. of Hampstead is informed, that whatever he may please to 
send will be impartially inserted, as our work is open to eyery 
student in the science—“ Open to ally influenced by none.” 

If u A Disbeliever of the Science” will state his objections to 
astrology, we will publish them $ and we have no doubt we'shall 
be able to convince him of their futility. 

The Table Of Directions alluded to in our last No., p. 108, will 
be given in our next. 

E R R A T A. 

No. VIII, p. 164, line 20, for Sept. 9th, read 29th. 

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NATIVITY OF HIS LATE MAJESTY GEO. III. 















194 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


ANSWERS 

To the Challenge given by Mr. James Watson to 
Astrologers , in the Fifteenth Number of 
“ The Republican 

WE have observed in the fifteenth number of the Re¬ 
publican, a letter to Mr. R. Carlisle, signed, JamesWatson, 
in which the latter Gentleman expresses a wish “thajfc 
some Astrologer would explain in plain language, divested 
of technical terms, honestly explain by what means the 
planet Mercury, for instance, operates upon the nervous 
fluid of an infant through life to perform a nolens volens, 
certain actions.” He adds, “until some one can explain 
this, so as to be understood by persons of common sense. 
Astrologers and their disciples must excuse me, when I say 
that I consider the soothsaying of Astrology like the pro¬ 
phecy of priests, to be all a delusion, which tends to keep 
the ignorant and credulous enslaved to knaves and impos¬ 
tors;” he also hopes “ Mr. R. Carlile will say something 
towards curing any of his friends of their hallucinations, 
that may chance to believe in Astrology.” This latter 
gentleman, with mo**e modesty than his correspondent, has 
omitted to say any thing of a science which he does not un¬ 
derstand, and has not confirmed the sentence of Mr. James 
Watson, which pronounces the art to be all a juggle, and 
its professors impostors. 

We will now proceed, as well as we can, to reply to hi* 
question, and explain the principles of a science to a man. 


astrologer’s pocket companion** 195 

who, by his own confession, is ignorant of its rudiments. 
He first wishes to know why the planet Mercury operates 
upon the nervous fluid of an infant, at its birth, to perform, 
nolens volens , certain act* ns. It has always been supposed 
that Mercury and the other planets act upon us by attrac¬ 
tion, though what way they communicate their power to 
us, still remains to be discovered by some future philo¬ 
sopher ; that they do act upon us is evident to every one 
who has studied Astrology, but the proving this fact to 
those who have not, is attended with considerable diffi¬ 
culty, and we might almost be justified in with-holding an 
explanation to those, who, either incapable of learning it, or 
too indolent to take the trouble, declare the art to be false, 
or its students either knaves or fools. 

Mr. Watson may ask why the Moon attracts the water? 
why the planets revolve round their common centre ? why 
light is produced by the action of the Sun? why the uni¬ 
verse itself was created ? and should phylosophers fail in 
giving a satisfactory answer to these unreasonable ques¬ 
tions, he may consider, as he says, every science which he 
is unable to comprehend, to be founded in error and knave¬ 
ry, but his asssertions will have little weight with the 
reasonable part of mankind. It is sufficient for Astrologers, 
that they can prove whenever the Moon and Mercury are 
afflicted by the planets, Saturn and Mars, and not in aspect 
with each other, unassisted by the benefics, the native will 
be lunatic. As an example, we will take the nativity c{ 
his late Majesty George the Third: The judgment of 
which will be given in our next. 



195 TUTS SPIRIT OP partridge; or, 

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 181 .] 

■ 

OF MERCURY. 

M ercury is the nearest planet to the Sun yet discovered, 
and though the least in magnitude of the old planets, is one 
of the most important. 

The abilities and disposition of every one depend upon 
the condition of Mercury and the luminaries. 

Whenever Mercury is in conjunction with Saturn, the 
native is slow, dull, fearful, timorous, patient, persevering, 
laborious, grave, and capable of great application to any 
sedentary pursuit: if in bad aspect, he is nervous, stupid, 
sordid, and very worthless : if in good aspect, the native 
is subtle, prudent, and careful of his own interest: if Mer¬ 
cury be in conjunction or good aspect with Jupiter, the 
native is generous, liberal, humane, possessed of a good 
capacity : if in bad aspect, it is said he will be inclined to 
view things through a false medium : when in conjunction 
or bad aspect with Mars, the native is violent, furious, 
blood-thirsty, passionate, and revengful; poseessed of 
acuteness and discrimination: without the assistance of 
good aspects, a thief and a swindler. 

If in good aspect, the native is an excellent mechanic, 
brave, skilful, ingenious, possessing a large fund of caustic 
humour, penetrating, excellent in any work that requires 


astrologer’s pocket cosu>axion. 1^)7 

dexterity of hand, an excellent accountant and mathemati¬ 
cian, anil, with the assistance of the moon, a good astrologer. 

The conjunction of the Sun destroys the mental abilities 
of the native, he is shallow, superficial, devoid of sound 
judgment or reflection, and though he may be qualified for 
business, he will never make any progress in the higher 
branches of science. As Mercury can never be more 2$° 
from the Sun, he can form no aspect, if we except the 
Mundane paralled; when he forms this parallel from the 
mid-heaven, provided he is a sufficient distance from the 
Sun, he seems to cause great and boundless ambition ; and 
if the ,other parts of the figure concur, he may rise to con¬ 
siderable eminence. 

If in conjuction or sextile with Venus, the native is foad 
of poetry, music and dancing: if Mars assist the configura¬ 
tion, Jie will be an excellent painter, and perhaps therecan 
be no position w hich produces a better musician, than the 
Moon generating from Venus and applying to Mercury. 

Mercury in good aspect with the Moon, produces the 
most splendid abilities; and he is eminently successful in 
every scientific undertaking. 

In our opinion, a good aspect of Saturn to this .configu¬ 
ration, will be of service, by rendering the native more 
steady, and more persevering in any pursuit: if in conjunc¬ 
tion or bad aspect, the native still possesses great abilities; 
but he is very unsettled', continually shifting, not remaining 
long in one pursuit, and always ready to take advantage ot 
the credulous and unweary. Whenever Mercury and the 
Moon are affected in a nativity, and not in good aspect 
W’ith each other, or the ascendant, the native is liable to 




108 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

mental derangement; and these symptoms will be more 
manifest at the time these planets meet with evii directions. 
Whenever Mercury is evilly affected in a nativity, he will 
operate as a malefic: if well aspecti d, he produces good, 
lu horary questions,Mercury describes a person rather tall, 
thin, active, with tall straight forhead, thin lips, narrow 
chin, thin sallow face, long arms, hands, and legs. 

If well dignified, he denotes a person quick, active, sub¬ 
tle, and well qualified for either learning or business. 

If ill dignified, the person so described, is a thief, liar, 
mean sharper, full of deceit, and low cunning. 

Mercury cannot be more afflicted than by being com¬ 
bust or in conjunction with the Sun : or give greater 
abilities than by good aspect of the Moon. 

Mercury in the Twelve Signs. 

Mercury in Aries gives a body of middling stature, 
spare, thin, a long neck, an oval faee, light, brown curling 
hair, dusky brown or swarthy complexion, disposition 
nnamiable, choleric, quarrelsome, addicted to falsehood, 
theft and unworthy actions: but if Mercury be in good 
aspect with Jupiter or Venus, and is not afflicted by the 
malignant rays of Saturn or Mars, the disposition will be 
much improved. 

Mercury in Taurus describes a person of a middling 
stature, full face, sad-brow n hair, and of a swarthy com¬ 
plexion, an indifferent well-set corpulent body. He is 
generally a slothful idle person, loves his own ease, and 
to keep company with unworthy persons, to his ow n detri¬ 
ment and prejudice, 


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astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 199 

Mercury in Gemini represents a tall slender well Com¬ 
posed body, of a swarthy complexion, dark brown hair, 
hazel eye, long hands and feet, a very ingenious person, full 
of activity, a lover of arts and sciences, and will easy attain 
them, a good orator, having a very fluent tongue, makes 
an excellent pleader, a subtle barrister, a delighter in lite¬ 
rary researches, a collector of natural curiosities, and of rare 
records. Irt short, a person who is seldom over-reached or 
ensnared by the craftiest name; on the contrary,’he gene - 
rally convicts the keenest sophister, especially if Mercury 
be free from the evil, aspects of other planets. 

Mercury in Cancer signifies a person of a low stature, is 
of an indifferent, generally a pale complexion, black hair, 
thin face, sharp nose, and small grey eyes; in disposition, 
he will prove a changeling, a mere dissembler, a sottish 
sordid light fingured ill-natured person. The benign as¬ 
pects of Jupiter, Venus, or Luna to Mercury, will induce a 
most pleasing change. 

Mercury in Leo gives a pretty large stature, 1 not gros , 
but rather lean than corpulent; large eyes, :t swarthy or 
sun burnt complexion, light brown hair, round face, a 
broad and high nose, in disposition a hasty choleric proud 
conceited person ; he is ambitious of honor, inflexible, es¬ 
pecially if the Sun be also in a fixed sign, a braggart, and 
often addicted to contention. 

Mercury in Virgo, describes a tall, slender, well-propor¬ 
tioned person, dark brown or black hair, the complexion 
not very clear, long visage, in disposition and qualities qf 
the mind, amiable and profound, endowed with a fertile 
fancy, readily attaining the knowledge of divers arts, lan- 


200 


TIIE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

guages, and sciences, by his own industry—an expert 
merchant, a correct accountant, an able negotiator, an 
excellent orator, a great projector, delighting in literature, 
music, and in new discoveries and curious inventions, and 
these good qualities will be much increased if Virgo ascend 
with Mercury, free from affliction. 

Mercury in Libra describes a decent composed body, 
rather full than otherwise, reasonably corpulent, light 
brown, sometimes dark smooth hair, grey eyes, ruddy or 
sanguine complexion, an ingenious person, of an excellent 
disposition, prompt to patronize virtuous persons and use¬ 
ful pursuits, an active advocate for justice, a lover of liberty, 
and a promoter of learning—in short, he is a person hap¬ 
pily endowed with many natural and acquired accom¬ 
plishments. 

Mercury in Scorpio gives a person of a mean stature, well 
set broad shoulders, swarthy complexion, sad brown hair, 
curling, with not a very amiable disposition—such a person 
is subtle, intriguing, inclinable to company, a lover of the 
fair sex, ingenious, studious for the promotion of his own 
interest, liable to the anonymous disease. 

Mercury in Sagittarius denotes a person tall of stature, 
well shaped, body not corpulent, rather large boued and 
spare, an oval face, brown Lair, ruddy complexion, gene¬ 
rally a large nose; for qualities and conditions, passionate, 
but soon appeased, too rash in his actions, which many 
times occasion his own detriment, but good conditioned in 
general, and delights in noble tilings, yet rarely attains 
his end. 

Mercury in Capricorn signifies a person of mean stature, 


ASTfcOLOGYIl's POCKET COMPANION. ‘201 

thin face, brown hair, a dusky complexion, sometime* 
bow-legged or some defect in the extremities, in dispo¬ 
sition peevish, fickle, discontented, and unfortunate : 
without other testimonies concur, an impotent dejected, 
creature. 

Mercury in Aquarius denotes a person of an indifferent 
stature of body, reasonably fleshy, a good clear complexion, 
brown but sometimes black hair, full face; in disposition 
an ingenious person, inclinable to the study of arts and 
sciences, of a pregnant wit, apt and inclinable to curious 
researches and inventions.—In fine, he is a favourer of the 
learned and an encourager of the ingenious. 

Mercury in Pisces gives a person of a low stature, brown 
hair, thin face, of a pale sickly complexion, generally very 
hairy upon the body, addicted to the water; in disposition 
a repining disconsolate person, yet a lover of women, ad¬ 
dicted to drinking, and consequently the greatest enemy 
to himself. 

[To be continued.] 


BIOGHAPHY., 

HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. 

• 

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, a learned philosopher and 
astrologer, was born at Cologne on the 14th of September, 
I486, and descended from a noble and ancient family of 
Nelte$heim, in Belgia : desiring to walk in the steps of his 
L 2. 





202 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

ancestors, who for many generations had been employed 
by the princes of the house of Austria- He entered early in 
' the service of the emperor Maximilian. He had at first the 
employ o,f secretary; but as he was equally qualified for the 
f. ^word an,dthe pen, he afterwards turned soldier, and served 
the emperor seven years in his Italian army. He signalized 
himself on severaf occasions, and as a reward of his brave 
actions, he was created knight in the field. He wished to« 
,ad,d tl>e academical honors to the military, he, therefore, 
commenced the study of laws and physic. 

He was a man possessed of a very wonderful genius, and 
from his youth applied himself to learning; and by his 
great natural talents, he obtained an exteusive knowledge 
,of almost all arts and sciences, and was early engaged in 
the search of the philosopher’s stone. He had a very ex- 
tejisive^knovvledge of things in general, and was a complete 
master,of the learned languages. He was pupil to Trilhe- 
mius, who wrote upon the nature, ministry, and offices of 
spirits. He was of an unsettled temper, and often changed 
his.situation, and was so unfortunate as to draw upon him¬ 
self the indignation of the Popish clergy, by his writings, 
through which he was continually in broils. We find, by 
liisSetterS, that he had been iu France before the year 1507 , 
that he travelled into Spain in 1508, and was at Dole in 
1509, where he read public lectures; and to engratiate 
himself the better with Margaret of Austria, governess of 
jthe Austrian Netherlands, he composed a treatise on the 
excellency.of women ; but the persecution he suffered from 
therinonks, prevented him from printing it: he came into 
England, whence he travelled to Cologne, and read public 


astrologer's pocket companion. 20S 

lectures there; after which, he went into the emperor 
Maximilian’s army, in Italy, and continued there till the 
Q&rdinal de Saint Croix sent for him to Pisa. 

He read lectures on Mercurius Trismegistus, at Pavia, in 
1515, and in 1518 was chosen by the lords of Metz to he 
their advocate, syndic and orator, where he was again per¬ 
secuted by the monks, for having refuted the common 
opinion concerning the three husbands of Saint Ann ; and 
because he protected the innocence of a poor country 
woman, who was put to the torture on suspicion of a witch, 
and on no other grounds than her mother having been 
burnt for one. 

In 1524 he went to Lyons, and obtained a pension from 
Francis 1 I.; but having predicted new triumphs to the 
Constable of Bourbon, whose nativity he had calculated, 
and who was at enmity with that prince, he was disgraced, 
and obliged to look out for another settlement. 

He cast his eye on the Netherlands, and having, after 
long waiting, obtained the necessary passes, arrived at 
Antwerp, in the month of July, 1528. One of the causes 
of these delays was, the rough proceedings of the Duke of 
Vendome, who, instead of signing the pass for Agrippa, 
tore it up, saying, ** he would not sign a pass for a conjuror.” 
In the year 1529, the king of England sent Agrippa a kind 
invitation to come into his territories, and at the same time, 
he was invited by the Emperors Chancellors, by an Italian 
Marquis, and by Margaret of Austria. He accepted the 
offer of the latter, and was made historiographer to the 
emperor, a post procured by that princess, He published 


204 the spirit or partridge; or, 

by way of prelude, the history of the goverment of 
Charles V.; and soon after he was obliged to compose 
that princess’s funeral oration, whose death was in some 
manner the life ofAgrippa: the same ill office was done 
him by his imperial majesty. Ilis treatise on the vanity 
of the sciences, which he caused to be printed in 1530, 
terribly exasperated his enemies. That which he publish¬ 
ed soon after, at Antwerp, viz. of the Occult Philosophy, 
afforded them a still farther pretence to defame him. It 
was fortunate for him that cardinal Campegius (Ihe Pope’s 
legate), and cardinal De la Mark, bishop of Leige, were his 
advocates; but, however, their good offices could not pro¬ 
cure him his pension as historiographer, nor prevent bis 
being imprisoned at Brussels in 1531 ; but lie was soon 
released. 

The following year he made a visit to the Archbishop 
of Cologne, to whom he had dedicated his Occult Philoso¬ 
phy, and from whom he has received a very obliging letter. 
The fear of his creditors, with whom he was very much 
embarrassed on account of his salary being stopped, made 
im stay longer in the country of Cologne than he in¬ 
tended. 

. 

He strenuously opposed the inquisitors who had put a 
stop to the printing of his Occult Philosophy,when he was 
publishing a new edition of it, augmented and corrected at 
Cologne. In spite of them, the impression was finished, 
which is that of the year 1533. He continued at Bonn till 
1535, and was then desirous of returning 1 to Lyons. He was 
imprisoned in France for something he had said against 


astrologer’s pocket companion. £05 

the mother of Francis I., but was released at the request 
of certain persons, and went to Grenoble, where he died 
iff the same year, 1535. 

Some say he died in the hospital, but this is mere malice, 
for his enemies reported every thing that envy could sug¬ 
gest to depreciate his worth. He died at the house of the 
receiver general of the province of Dauphine, whose son 
was first president of Grenoble. Mr. Allard at p. 4 of the 
Bibliotheque of Daphine, says, that Agrippa died at Gre¬ 
noble, at the house which belonged to the family of 
Ferrand,in Clerk-street; and was then in possession of the 
president Vachon ; and that he was buried in the convent 
of the Domiuieians. He lived always in the Roman com¬ 
munion, therefore, it ought not to be affirmed he was a 
Lutheran, as said by Sixtus Sienensus. 

Burnet, in his history of the Reformation, asserts, that 
Agrippa wrote in favor of the divorce of King Henry VIII. 
but if we look into Agrippa’s letters, we shall find that he 
was against it; as well in them as likewise in his declara¬ 
tion on the vanity of the sciences, where he says, “ I am 
informed, there is a certain king, at this time of day, who 
thiuks it lawful for him to divorce a wife to whom he has 
beeu married these twenty years, and to espouse a harlot. 
In respect to the charges of magic preferred against him 
by Martin del Rio and others, who confidently asserted 
that Agrippa paid his way at inns, &c. with pieces of horn, 
casting an illusion over the sense, whereby those who re¬ 
ceived them took them for real money, together with the 
story of the boarder of Louvain, who, in Agrippa’s absence 
raised the devil in his study, and thereby lost his life; jyid 


9 ('O THE SPIRIT OF TARTRIDEE; OR, 

that Agrippa coming home, and seeing the spirits dancing 
at the top of the house, commanded one of them to enter the 
dead body, and sent it to drop it down in the market 
place. All these stories asserted of him, and many others 
of a similar nature, are not fit to be credited; that he was 
well versed in many of the chief and most secret ope¬ 
rations of nature, cannot be doubted, and that he cer¬ 
tainly performed strahge things (in the vulgar eye); and 
being an expert astrologer, physician, and mathematician, 
he foretold many uncommon things. 

Gabriel Naude suppose# that the monks, and others of 
the- ecclesiastical order, did not think of crying down his 
Occult Philosophy till a long lime after it was published: 
he affirms, that they exclaimed against this work only in 
revenge for the injuries they had sustained in the vanity.of 
the sciences. It is true tins latter book gave offence to 
many; the monks, the members of the universities, the 
preachers, and the divines saw themselves drawn to the 
life in it. 


[To be continued.]. 


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207 


ASTRONOMY 



Comfits.—M. de Bicla, a Prussian officer, has remarked 
iwo important facts respecting the Comet, which he dis¬ 
covered the 80th December 182S. The first of these facts 
is, that the proximity of Comets has an influence on the 
luminous state of the Sun, and that it makes apparent, up¬ 
on the disk of that body, very remarkable spots $ and it is 
now very generally supposed, that these spots have,an 
influence on our temperature. The second fact of which 
M. Bicla speaks, is, that during the night of the 22d of 
January last, the Comet presented two tails, forming be¬ 
tween them an obstruse angle. 

This phenomenon, extraordinary as it may appear, hrs 
already been observed several times at the moment in 

which different Comets reached their perihelium*-- 

M. de Bicla intends to publish most ample details in Astro¬ 
nomical Annals of Dr. Bade of Berlin. 


SOS 


TI1E SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ,* OR,, 


A TAB Zb IS 


Of the Directions in the Nativity of Oliver Crom¬ 
well, with the several Arcs thereof, the Measure 
of Time agreeing to each of them, and the Year 
of our Lord when they heguri to take effect. 


Nomina Directionum. 


Sol 0(5 Terminos If. . , . 

Sol-ad * zf Zodiaco 

Luna ad «$< If Zodiaeo cum Latitudine 

Luna ad ^ $ Zadiaco . 

Soi ad Corpus Q ... . 

Luna ad Terminos If 
Luna ad Terminos $ 

Luna ad >|< If Zodiaco sine Latitudine 
Lutm ad Parelielum If Mundo d.d., 

Soi ad □ If Mundo d.d. 

Luna ad A § Zodiaco sine Lattitudine 
Sol ad Sesquiquadratum Mundo d.d. 
Salad Parelielum £ Zodiaco . 

Lutm ad Parelielum T? Zodiaco 
0ad Parelielum Zodiaco . 
Ascendens ad 0 

Luna ad Sesquiquadratum If mundo d.d. 
I.utm ad Parelielum £ in Zodiaco . 

0 ad Pare leium $ Zodiaco . 

Sol ad Pleiades cum Latitudine 
Luna ad A ? 2Todiaco cum Latitudine 
0»d Parelielum ^Mundod.d. 

Luna ad Terminos k . . 

Luna ad Terminos 1? „ 

0 ad Q 0 Mundo Ud. . . 

Luna ad Parelielum Proprium 
0. ad Parelielum C Zodiaco . 


Arcus 

Directi 

Gr.Mi. 

57 
o 

>3 

5 8 
44 

17 

34 
4 4° 
4 54 


17 

5 

23 

*5 

*5 

27 

3 s 


1 2 i 

7 16 


43 

43 

48 

49 

56 

57 
5 

5 


Numor.Annl 

Annor.lDoiu 

An.M. 

n;r6oc 
Oji6oc 
3;i6o( 
H|i6oj 

2T601 
8 1601 
5160; 
8 160 
9)160 
xii6o^ 
5 Z'604 
3 1605 


7 

7 

i 

8 

TO 

5 

5 

xr 

11 

o 


1605 
160 c 

. ^605 
8 1605 

1606 

1606 
.1606 

1607 
1607 
1607 
1607 
1607 
1607 

31607 
3 looz 


0 


■ 








ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPANION. 


Nomina Directionum, 


0 ad Terminos f?. 

Luna ad □ § in Mundod.d. . • 

Medium Coeh ad A T? . • . 

Sol ad Pleiades sine Latitudine . . 

Midiuni Cce'.i ad A T? • • • 

0 ad Parellelum Mundod.d. . . 

Luna ad Terminos $ . . * 

0 ad A £ in Mundod.d. .. 

0 ad Corpus Jovis. d,d. .... 
Lunaad £ £ in Zodiacocum Latitudine 
Medium Cceli nd sjc T? • . 

Luna ud A $ 2 *odiaco sine Latitudine . 
Luna ad Corpus T? Zodiaco sine Latitudine 
Sol ad Terminos . 

Luna ad □ If JSurdiaco sine Latitudine . 
Luna dd Terminos If • . . . 

Sol ad Corpus 5 Zodiac . . . . 

Sol ad Terminos $ .• . v . • 

Lnua ad If in Mundo d d. . . « 

Luna ad bpicam TTp; cum Latitudine . 

Sol ad Quintilem If Mundod.d. . 

Sol ad Parellelum ^ .Zodiaco . . 

Ascendens ad Semiquadratum 0 
Luna ad $ $ Zodiacocuin Latitudine 
Luna ad Terminos £ .• 

Luna ad Cprpus T? Zodiaco sine Latitudine 
Sol ad Parellelum If-mot u ra-pto . 
Asceudem ad Semiquadratum ^ • . 

Sol ad Aldebaran sine Latitudine • . 

Ascendens adSemiquadfatum If. . . 

Lima ad □ 2 f Zodiaco sine Latitudine . 
Asccndt ns ad Sextilem o 
Sol ad A T? in Mundod.d. . . . 

Luna ad Terminos $ « . . 

0 ad Quadratum $ iu Mundod.d. . 

Sol ad Terminos If . . . • 

Ascendens ad $ D . * . • . 

Medium treli ap n D . • •. 

Sol ad (5 $ motu ronvers- 
Luna ad Spicum t 1 £ sine Latitudine .. . 

ad Aldebaraircum Latitudine .. . 


Gr.Mi 
S 

9 
9 
io 
io 
ro 

10 

11 

11 

I 2 

12 
12 
18 

13 
|i 4 

1 4 
14 
14 
16 
16 
16 

16 

1 7 
7 

17 

i 3 

*9 
*9 
*9 
20 
20 
20 

20 

21 
21 

21 

22 
22 
22 
22 
22 


• 


009 

Numor 

Anri 

Annor. 

dom 

. A 

M. 


8 

5 

1607 

1 9 

<; 

1608 

3 9 

8 

1608 

10 

4 

1609 

10 

7 

1609 

10 

8 

1609 

to 

11 

1610 

11 

5 

1610 

ti 

IC 

1611 

12 

5 * 6*1 

3 12 

5 

i6t« 

? 12 

7 

16 11 

2 i 3 

1 

1612 

3 13 

3 

1612 

7 14 

9:1614 

I 14 

iod6i+ 

3 i 5 

1I1614 

5 r 5 

3 

! I ?«4 

3116 

7 

;i6i ? 

4 -'; 1 6 

9 

1616 

c 16 

9 

1616 

1 17 

2 

! i6i6 

218 

1 

1617 

8 18 

00 1617 

4 18 

1 

1617 

9 18 

9 

1618 


42 20 
43 20 

1 20 
16 20 

38 20 

39 20 

1521 

35 2 2 
50 22 

2 22 
2 22 

IC 22 
22 22 
4 2 2 3 


* , 7 
00 i a 19 

co 161-9 

« 16 I a 

6 1619 

io 1620 

10 1620 

71621 

00 1621 

3 1621 

611621 

6 1621 

9 1622 

10 163?, 

2 1623 


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210 


THE SPIRIT CF PARTRIDGE; OT, 


Nomina Directionum. 


Luna'ad Quintilem 11 Mundo d d . , 

Sol ad If, in Mundo d d . 

Luna 0(1 Parellelum $ Zodiaco 
0 ad Parellelum $ Zodiaco . 

0 ad :{? Zodiaco . ... 

0 ad Sesquiquadralum $ in Mundo dd. 
Luna ad Teiihinos £• . . . • 

Sol ad A Zodiaco ...... 

Luna ad Sesqu quadratum $ Mundo, motu 
convers. . . 

0 ad Parellelum 0 dd. . . . 

Luna ad Terminus $ ; . 

Luna ad Semiquadratum Ill undo motu 
convers. . . . . . 

Medium Cceli ad A 0 • • 

Sol ad % 9 Mundo motu convers. . 

Sol ad $ i) Zodiaco . . 

Ascendeus ad A If . •. 

Luna ad Parailelum ^ Zodiaco 
0 ad Paralleiuin Q Zodiaco . 

Sol ad Terminos ^ . 

Luna ad (9 0 cum Latitudine 
Sol ad Mundo dd. . . . . 

Luna ad Sexiilem. proprium cum Lat. 
Ascendens ad Semiquadi alum ^ 

Medium C ooli ad A § 

Luna ad A If Zodiaco cum Latitudine 
0ad A 0 in Mundo dd. . 

0 ad A in Mundo dd . 

Luna.ad $ £5 Zodiaco cum Latitudine . 
Luna ad » drellelum T? motu raplo . 

Luna ad Term in os If ... . 

Sol ad Semiquadratum in Mqndo dd. . 
Luna ad Terminos If. ... . 

Sol ad Parailelum If. Zodiaco . 

Sul ad Parailelum If. Mundo dd T 
Luna ad Q 7f in Mundo dd. 

Luna ad Parailelum 2f. Zodiaco 
0 ad Parailelum If Zodiaco . . . 

Soi ad Parailelum ]) mom rapto 
Luna ad $ 0 Zodiaco sine Latitudine 


Arcus i.Numor 

Anni 

Directi 

Annor. 

Doiu 

Gr. 

Mi. 

An. 

M. 


23 

5 5 2 4 

5 

1623 

24 

9 

24 

8 

1624 

24 

47 

25 

4 

1624 

24 

47 

25 

4 1624 

2 5 

J 5 

2 5 

91625 

2? 

31 

26 

00 

1625 

26 

13 

26 

6 

1623 

26 

3826 

11 

1626 

26 

44 

27 

CO 

1626 

27 

58 

28 

3 1627 

2S 

4 1 

28 

MI 

1628 

23 

45 

29 

CO 

1628 

19 


19 

■ 7 

1628 

29 

27 

29 

9 1629 

29 

33 

29 

10 

1629 

29 

36 

29 

11 

1629 

29 

45 

3 ° 

1 

1629 

29 

45 

3 ° 

1 

1629 

29 

54 

3 o 

3 

1629 

29 

54 

3 ° 

3 

1629 

29 

59 

30 

4 

1629 

50 

20 

3 ° 

8 

1630 

3 ° 

37 

30 

11 

1630 

30 


30 

11 

1630 

3 o 

33 

3 ° 

11 

1630 

30 

47 

3 i 

1 

1630 

3 1 

6 

3 i 

5 

1630 

3 i 

24 

3 1 

9 

1631 

3 1 

39 , 3 2 

0 

1 6 3 I 

33 

6 33 

2 

1632 

33 

44 ! 3-3 

10 

>633 

33 

52 

34 

00 

' 6 33 

34 

23 

34 

6 

1633 

35 

6 

35 

2 

1634 

35 

23 

3 S 

6 

'634 

35 

2 4|35 

6 

1634 

35 

2 4 35 

6 

I<5 34 

36 

33 ' 3 d 

7 

1635 

37 

7 l 37 

1 

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ASTRO LOG Kit’s POCKET COMPANION - . 


2 n 


Nomina Directionuin. 


Luna ad Term’nos Ip . 

I una ad :|c 7) Xodiaco sine Latitudine 
Luna ad A If .Zodiac o sine Latitudine 
Ascen^eris ad Corpus g . . 

Medium Cceli ad Q■ $ 

Luna ad Parelleium motu rap to . . 

Sol ad Quintilem $ motu corivers. 

Luna ad § Zodiaco sine Latitudine 
0 ad Paralleium 9 Mundodd. 

0 ad Semiquadratufn If dd. 

Sol ad Terminus fp , , . . . 

Luua ad § ^ Zudiaco cum Latitudine . 
Medium Cceli ad A $ 

Luna ad Term'nos If ... 

Luna ad A g Mumk> motu couvers. 
Ascendens ad § |p . . . . 

Medium Coeli ad □ Jp 
Luna ad Paralleium proprium motu con. 
Sol ad Paralleium If. Mundo motu con. 
0 ad Sesquiqadratum Mundodd. . 
0 ad A ? IV] undo dd. . . . . 

Sol ad □ ]) Mundo dd. .... 
0 ad Sesquiquadratum (•) in Mundo dd. . 
0 ad Cor Leonis dd. . . 

Luna ad A If Mundodd. 

Luna aid Jfc Tp Mundo motu con vers. 

Luna ad Paralleium ^ motu rapto . . 

Sol ad Semiquadratum ^Mundodd. 

Sol ad jfc 0 Mundo motu eonvers. . , 

Luna ad Coid[ Zodiaco cum Latitudine . 
Sol ad Terminus g , 

So! ad Paralleium $ motu rapto . 

0 ad Paralleium If motu rapto 
Sri ad £ i' 1 Mundo dd. 

Luna ad § 9 s ’ ne Latitudine 
Medium Cceli ad § 

Ascendens ad □ If . 

0 ad If Mundodd. 

Medium Cceli ad A D 
J.una ad A $ Zodiaco cum Latitudini 
Luna ad sfc fp Zodiaco cum Latitudine 


Arcus 
Directi 
Gr. Mi- 
37 22 


37 

37 

3 ^ 

3 ^ 

3 s 

33 

3« 

39 

40 
40 
40 
40 
40 

40 

4 1 
j 4 * 
4 1 

41 

42. 

42 

; 4 * 

42 

H-3 

44 

44 
}44 

45 
45 
45 

45 

46 
! 4 6 
46' 
48 

48 

48 

49 
5 ° 
5 ° 
5 i 


3 ; 1 

S 6 

16 

■16 

3 ° 

35 

4 2 

39 

22 

33 

46 

5 2 

53 
55 

2l 

2t 

47 

48 
2 

5 

2 2 
12 

41 

26 

34 


Numor A uni 


Annor. 
An. M. 


37 

37 

37 

38 
3 S 
38 
38 

38 

39 

40 
4o 
io 
40 
4o 

40 

41 
4 t 
41 

4i 

4i 

41 

42 
42 
'43 
44 
44 


40 '44 
11 144 
3 1 (45 
36 45 

57| 4 5 
3 45 

11 45 

n 4 * 

30.48 
444 * 

44.48 

57 4 9 
27 5 o 

39 5 ° 
5 2 i 5 1 


4 
6 

ic 

2 

z 

5 

6 
8 

8 


Dom 


1636 

1636 

1637 
1637 
1637 
1637 

1637 

|6 37 
,638 

1639 

> 6 39 
1640- 

1640 
1640 
1640 
1640 
1640 
1640 

1640 
a 641 

1641 
1641 

1641 

1642 

1643 
[643 
1641 

1644 
1644 
1644 
1-644 

81(645 

9:1645 
9 ! 1645 

1.1647, 

40647 

411647 

<41648 

o; 1649 

2*1649 

3 ,6 5 ° 


9 

9 

ic 

z 

2 

8 

8 

10 

it 

oO 

CO 

5 

2 

4 

5 

1 i 

o 

J 

4 

7 









212 THE 8PJRIT OP PARTRIDGE j OR, 


Nomina Directionum. 


Arcus 
Direct 
Gr. M. 

Numor 
Annor. 
An. M* 

0 ad Corpus Lutias dd. * . , 

• 

52 

s 

5 1 

5 

Ascendeus ad Corpus 0 . • . 

• 

52 

9 

5i 

6 

Medium Coeli ad Q0 

• 

5 2 

9 

5i 

6 

Sol ad □ ? Mundo motu convers. . 

• 

52 

1 7 

SI 

8 

0 ad Sesquiquadratum 9 Mundo dd. 


52 

20 

5 1 

9 

Ascendens ad Corpus £ . 

• 

52 

3o 

5 1 

x 1 

Medium Coeli ad □ $ . . . 

• 

52 

3o 

5 1 

11 

Lutra ad Cor Scorpii sine Latitudine 

r 

S 3 

3i 

51 

X 1 

Lunn ad Termiuos ^ . 

• 

53 

3° 

52 

II 

Luna ad A If in Mundo dd. 

• 

54 

33 

53 

11 

Sol ad Termino 6 2 . . . . 

• 

54 

45 

54 

1 

Luna ad □ proprium Zodiaco cum Lat. 

54 

46 

54 

1 

Sol ad ^ in Muadodd. , 

• 

55 

26 

54 

9 

Luna ad A $ Zodiaco sine Latitudine 

# 

57 

16 

5 6 

6 

Sol ad Q <5 Zodiaco ... 

M 

57 

25 

56 

8 

Sol ad Parallelum Zodiaco . , 

* 

57 

53 

57 

2 

Luna ad sjc T? Zodiaco sine Latitudine 

# 

S8 

29 

57 

8 

Sol ad □ T? Zodiaco 


58 

5 6 

58 

2 

Sol ad Quintilem 5 Mundo dd. 


59 

r 3 

58 

5 

Luna ad Parallelusn $ Mu do convers. 


59 

5 6 

59 

2 

Lunaad Parallelum $ Mundo dd. . 


60 

7 

59 

4 

Sol ad Q $ in Mundo dd. 


60 

34 

59 

9 

Luna ad □ }) Zodiaco sine Latitudine 


61 

4 

60 

3 

Sol ad jfc proprium Zodiaco 

* 

61 

18,60 

6 

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The above Table of Directions should have been placed 
in No. 8, between the 2Sd and 24tli lines, but in conse¬ 
quence o the Astronomical Tables not being completed 
for 1781, we were obliged to keep these Tables back for 
the want of room. 









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213 


PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

[Continued from page 189-] 

EXTRACT IX. 

Of the Natives Diseases , fyc —Seeing all people are sub¬ 
ject to some distemper of body or other, it will not be 
amiss to say something o:» this point also. And before I 
begin it, I will ask J. G. what disease, or diseases the 
Protector had that were fixed, chronick and durable, 
because he hath placed Saturn (in the nativity he hath 
made him) on the cusp of the seventh, a little towards the 
sixth house, in opposition to Mars on the cusp of ascendent, 
the only two points in the whole scheme to give broken 
bones, dislocated joints, and chroniok diseases; and yet I 
do not remember that it was ever said he was subject to 
either of them, ( perhaps now and then a wound , the honor¬ 
able mark of a soldier) but a brave, lusty, jolly gentlemen, 
as 1 myself can testify, having seen him some score times. 
And to this purpose, I will give yon Ptolemy's own words 
in the case, as you will find it, lib. 3 , cap . 17 , De Lesionibvs 
and morbis Corporum. And he begins with these words 
following, when he comes to inquire into thehuitsand 
diseases of the body. Universalis vero reyula Iubc £st, 
Duo Cardines Horizontis Inspiciantw *, videlicet is, qui 
est in ortu, and alter qui cst in o ccasu. Prcccipua 
vero consideretur is, qui est in occnsu and Locus Ante - 
cedens, qui prorsus non est Corpulatus Ascendentu Et 
observetur quomodo malefici Planetce ca Loca adspieiunt. 
Si enim yradibus qui Ascendant in dictis Locis, juncti sunt 
Coipore, aut adspieiunt eos quadrato adspectu , vel ex opposito: 


£J4 THE SPIRIT OF partridge; OR, 

seu alter planeta maleficus , seu uterque: Lcesianes and morbi 
natis accident. Thus you seein the nativity that J. G. made 
for the Protector , this very rule of Ptolomy takes place 
positively; for there we find Saturn upon the cusp of the 
seventh, in direct opposition to Mars on the cusp of the 
ascendant. .And you see also both the angles of the 
horizon in that figure are afflicted, which, by Ptolomy s 
rule (which I suppose they dare not deny), ought to give 
hurts and diseases to his body: but on the contrary, he 
was a brave, bold, healthy, fortunate man ; and none more 
free from wounds, hurts, or diseases of the body than him¬ 
self: so that this is another strong argument to prove that 
figure false, and that th e figure maker did not know any 
thing of the matter he pretended to give the world an ac¬ 
count of. And yet to add more, neither J. G. nor any 
man else can show me a true nativity where the two in¬ 
fortunes were in opposition from the tenth and fourth, or 
first and seventh, and that native prove a fortunate man 
or woman throughout their whole life, as did this gentle¬ 
man. And so 1 come to consider the figure of his nativity, 
(which I call the true one,) and to see what disease or 
injuries to his body are predictable, according to the 
doctrine arid principles of the forementioned author. 

Both the angles of the east and west, are free from the 
malefick beams of Saturn and Mars , 6cc.; and the sixth 
house, which is his locus antitedens is possessed by the 
benign Jupiter , and there is no ill ray cast to the cusp of 
the first and seventh houses, but the square of Venus from 
the cusp of the fourth; and, besides, the Moon who is 
lady of the seventh, is in Sextile to Jupiter in the sixth 


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house, and the Sun in Sextile to him also : which position 
are no ways likely to give any chronick disease r hurts, 
and accidents of detriment to his body; neither indeed 
had he any that was remarkable and visible; and for those 
that are not so, I think they are inconsiderable, especially, 
if we consider all men are subject to some little defects in 
nature, which may be impediments, but not diseases in 
Ptolemy’s Sense and Meaning; for in the chapter before 
mentioned, he does thus dis inguish between hurts and 
diseases. Divertin': enim he e interse. Lasio semei covrumpit 
membrum aliquod , nec adfutpistca Crucisatus Intensionem : 
morbus vero, aut assidue , ant per Jntcrvella correptos 
excrnciat. 

But to consider what he might be subject to, let us con¬ 
sider dla?\s and Saturn in opposition , and both in square to ' 
Jupiter ; these might give him something of the (/ravel in ' 
the hulnies, with a heat in, or about those parts; he might 
also be subject to the head-ache , or some little disorder 
there, coming from the stomach and spleen; for we find 
both the Malefics in square to Jupiter in Cancer; and 
besides this, he might also he liable to some obstructions 
of his lungs , either by colds, fyc. but none of these con¬ 
tinual, but accidental, and only happening upon bad 
directions, transits, returns, &c. 


[To be continued.] 


THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE, &C. 


21G 


TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

We beg to return our sincere thanks to Mr. 1 . P. of 

V.-Place, for his good wishes, and to inform him that 

the society respecting which he enquires, is at present 
confined to a circle of intimate friends : should its members 
(which is not improbable) determine on extending the 
society, Mr. P. may depeud on receiving the earliest in¬ 
telligence. 

T. H. is informed that we have no room for his figure of 
the horary questions in the present number; our opinion 
is, that from the position of the Moon, who is placed in the 
twelfth house, indicating the anxiety of the qurent, having 
just past the trine of Venus in the fifth, clearly points out 
the quesited is as she affirms. 

Mr. Elliot is informed that we should recommend. Wil¬ 
son’s Astrological Dictionary, as a better bookfor a begin¬ 
ner. We can say nothing of the correctness of the insru- 
ttient to which he alludes. 

ERRATA. 

In some few copies in No. IX. the Moon’s south node is 
in 2£ a libra, instead of 22 of Virgo in the second house. 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ SPIRIT OF 
PARTRIDGE.” 


Sir, 


I have sent you the Nativity of the well-known 
character. Dr. Mitchel; perhaps some of your correspon¬ 
dents will give their opinion of kt, as the native lived a 
very strange life. I have been informed he has been mar¬ 
ried twice, once at the age of 26 , and again at 49 ; he re¬ 
ceived an accident in the hip at 19 ; imprisoned at 40 , 
(I believe for debt); applied himself to the study of Astro¬ 
logy at 44 years of age—perhaps these latter remarks will- 
serve to correct the birth by. The favour of this being 
inserted in your work, will certainly oblige, 

Your obedient Servant, 

And well-wisher to M The Spirit of Partridge,” 


W. L B-h. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


219 


EM A B. & S 

On the Nativity of his late Majesty Geo . Ill. 

[Continued from page 195.] 


THE figure of his late Majesty Geo. III. which appear¬ 
ed in our last number was taken from Mr. Cooper's Transla¬ 
tion of Placidus de Titus ;* a work of the greatest merit , as 
far as relates to the original THIRTY NATIVITIES given 
by that great man. 

Wc have not altered the figure in any one part from Mr. 
Cooper , yet we shall not agree with this gentleman in many 
points, particularly in the measure of time, and the directions 
he brought up for the natives death. 

In the Figure we find that the Moon is declining into 
the sixth house, in no aspect to Mercury and in Zodiacal 
square to Mars, who is on the M.C. in Mundane square 
to the Ascendant, likewise Mercury is in conjunction with. 
Saturn in Zodiacal semiquartile to Mars; so that the 
Moon, Mercury, and the Ascendant, were all afflicted, in¬ 
dicating exactly the disorder his Majesty laboured under. 
Therefore, if Mr. James Watson, will give himself the 
trouble to look over our preceding numbers,! he will find 

* Published by Davis and Dickson, St. Martin’s-le-Grand. 

t Or the New Translation of Ptolemy, by J. Ashmand. 


220 


THE spirit or partridge; or, 
there is an Astrology that will always confute his foolisf# 
argument. 

Mr. J. Watson will recollect we have not selected a 
private individual nativity, but we have given him an ex¬ 
ample that is well known to the World. 

Observations on Geo . Ill's Nativity. 

Mr. Cooper mentions* at the time his Majesty came to 
the Crown, ( which happened October 25, 1760, when the 
native was about twenty-two years and Jive months of aye, 
nearly,) the Ascendant was directed to the Sextile of the 
Sun, and on the Sun to the Quintile of Mars, be was 
crowned and married. This seems a strange sort of direc¬ 
tions to do all this business. We are certain no Astrologer 
that knows the real principles of the science , will agree with 
Mr. C. In the first place, we shall observe that the Ascend¬ 
ant ought not to be directed to the Sun for advancement 
and honor ; nor should the Sun be directed in a male ge- 
niture for marriage, particularly as the Snn is in Zodiacal 
parallel with Saturn. Now, if you will know what did 
all this good, for this Royal Native, we must say it was not 
the directions Mr. Cooper mentions, but it was from the 
effect of the Ascendant being directed to the Biquintile of 
the Moon in Mundo, (for if you observe, the Moon is in 
Mundane Trine to Jupiter, who is posited in the tenth house, 
being the most powerful promittor in the Figure, which will 
be proved before we finish ) followed by the Ascendant to 


* Placidus de Titus, by Cooper, page 455. 


astrologer's pocket companion. 221 

Sextile of the Sue in Mundo, the Sun to the Quintile of 
of Mars in Mundo dd. These we think are more likely to 
be the right directions. In 1763, “says Mr. C.” a definitive 
treaty of peace was concluded at Paris between his Britan¬ 
nic Majesty, the King of France, the King of Spain, and 
acceded to by the King of Portugal, at this time the Sun 
was directed to the Sextile of Jupiter in Mundo dd. 
(This is correct , and we have no doubt but this direction 
greatly assisted in bringing his Majesty to the Crown of 
England.) Again he savs, “On the Ascendant being 
directed to the Sextile of Saturn in Mundo arc 38° 11‘, 
the American war broke out.” This is rather a strange 
direction to cause war , particularly as Saturn is so near 
Venus. We think that some more important direction may 
be found: now then , those who are not too idle, and ivill 
give themselves the trouble to calcnlate y will find, that the 
following directions were in operation from 28 to 38 years 
of age, viz. the Sun to the Rapt Parallel of Mars in 
Mundo, the Moon to th« Rapt Parollel of Mars in Mundo, 
the Sun to the Sesquiquadrate of the Moon in Mundo, 
the. Ascendant to the Trine of Mars in Mundo, the 
Moon to the Zodiacal Sextile of Mars with latitude, the 
Moon to the opposition of the Sun in Mundo. (This latter 
direction falls nearly in Mundane Sesquiquadrate to the 
Mid-heaven, indicating some bad management ) The Moon 
to the square of Jupiter in Mundo dd:, the Mid heaven to 
the Sesquiquadrate of the Moon in Mundo, the Ascendant 
to the Sesquiquadrate of the Moon in Mundo, the Moon 
to the Sesquiquadrate of Mars in Mundo Converse, the 
Ascendant to the Sextile of Mercury in Mundo, the Sun 


223 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR* 

to the Rapt pareliel of Jupiter in Mundo, the Moon to the 
P-ipt pareliel of Jupiter in Mundo, the Moon to the Quin¬ 
tile of Mars in Mundo dd., the Ascendant to the Sextile of 
ifcgturn in Mundo. Here we shall find that there were -eight 
(hscordant directions operating, as to the Ascendant being 
directed to the Sextile of Saturn for war is most ridiculous ; 
for if you will observe, Saturn is conjoined to Venus who is 
in Sextile to Jupiter. 

“He mentions, then came the Sun to the square of Mars 
in Mundo dd. arc 42^ 33% and a war commenced against 
France.” 

On the Ascendant to the Sesquiquadrate of Mars in Mun¬ 
do, grc 44° 49‘ (to which may be added the Mid-heaven 
to the Sesquiquadrate of Mars in Mundo, being a dis¬ 
graceful poncern) Lord Cornwallis surrendered himself, 
and the whole of his army to General Washington; in 
consequence of which, more pacific steps were taken by 
the British Parliament; and on the Ascendant to the Trine 
of Jupiter arc 45° 45% a general peace ensued. The 
directions then operating, were as follows, viz —the Sun to 
the square of Mars in Mundo dd., the Sun to the Semi- 
quartile of Venus in Mundo converse the Moon to the 
Sesquiquadrate of Saturn m Mundo dd., the Ascendant 
to the Sesquiquadrate of Mars in Mundo, the Mid-heaven 
to the Sesquiquadrate of Mars in Mundo, the Moon to the 
Sesquiquadrate of Venus in Mundo dd., the Ascendant to 
the Trine of Jupiter in Mundo (here you may see who 
produces war, and what produces peace). 


[To be continued.] 


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«2S 

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
PLANETS. 

[Continued from page 201.] 

ON THE MOON. 

The Moon is the Earth's only satellite. She is feminine, 
nocturnal, cold, moist, aud phlegmatic. Her influence, in 
herself, is neither fortunate nor unfortunate, but the whole 
depends on the configurations she makes with the other 
planets; likewise her position in the world , which is of the 
utmost consequence , more so then all the trash about essentiat 
dignities. By reason of her proximity to the Earth, and 
the swiftness of her motion, by which she receives aud 
transmits to us the light, and influence of all the superiors 
by her configuration with them, she becomes the most 
powerful siguifleator, either in Mundane, Genethliacal, or 
Horary Astrology. 

When she has rule in a nativity, she produces a full 
stature, with fair and pale complexion, round face, grey 
eyes, lowering brow, very hairy, short arms, thick hands 
and feet, smooth body, inclined to be corpulent and phleg¬ 
matic. If she be impeded by the Sun at the time of birth, 
she leaves a blemish on or near the eye; if she be occidental 
and in evil aspect to Mars, the sight will be affected. If 
she be well placed in a nativity, the nature will be of soft 
engaging manners and disposition; a lover of the polite 


2$4 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

arts, and of an ingenious imagination; fond of novelties, 
and given to travelling or rambling about the country, 
unstable, and providing only for the present time, careless 
of futurity, timorous, prodigal, and easily affrighted, but 
loving peace, desiring to live free from the world, &c. It 
is said, that if the native be brought up to mechanical em¬ 
ployment, he will be frequently hampering with a variety 
of different trades, but pursuing none of them long toge¬ 
ther. 

If the Moon be unfortunate at the birth, the native will 
then be slothful, indolent, and of no forecast; improvi¬ 
dent, given to a drunken, disorderly, and beggarly life; 
hating labour, or any kind of business or employment. 
When oriental, she inclines more to corpulence; but w hen 
accidental, rather lean, awkward, and ill formed. « 

The Moon in the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac . 

The Moon in Aries, describes a person of an indifferent 
stature, a round face, light brown or flaxen hair, reasonably 
corpulent or fleshy, and a moderatly good complexion; in 
disposition, mutable, rash and passionate, ambitious of 
honour, and of an aspiring propensity, but rarely fortunate, 
or at least, not for any length of time; subject to many 
reverses and many mutations 

The Moon in Taurus, describes a well composed body, 
of a middle stature, but rather short; corpulent and strong 
person, complexion not clear, brown or black hair, gentle 
and obliging disposition, and of a serious deportment in 
actions, just and correct, generally respected, and rather 
fortunate in their undertakings. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 

The Moon in Gemini, describes a person of a well com¬ 
posed body, tall, brown hair, good complexion, neither 
sanguine nor pale, yet in disposition not very praiseworthy, 
but rather offensive; very ingenious, remarkably cunning 
and subtle, generally unfortunate, if no testimony to the 
contrary are manifested, that is to say, if the Moon be net 
configurated to the benefics, &c. 

The Moon in Cancer designates middling size person?, 
well proportioned and fleshy, round face, brown hair, fair 
complexion, but rather duskish, of a pleasant jocular and 
flexible disposition, often inclined to the charms of soci¬ 
ality ; harmless and inoffensive, generally beloved and 
respected, fortunate in the managenent of their affairs, but 
uot prone to passion, nor precipitate and rash. 

The Moon in Leo describes a person rather above the 
middling stature,well proportioned, strong and large boned, 
of a sanguine complexion, brown hair, of a frill face and 
large eyes; of lofty, proud, supercilious aspiring disposition, 
extremely ambitious of honour, and to bear the sway over 
others; abhoring subjection or servitude, and seldom 
fortunate. 

The Moon in Virgo, represents a person above the mid- 
dlingstature, brown or black hair, an oval face, complexion 
rather ruddy or sanguine; an ingenious disposition, reserv¬ 
ed and pensive, and if the Moon be unaspeeted by the 
benefics or otherwise befriended; covetous, unfortunate, 
and rarely doing what is laudable and becoming. 

The Moon in Libra describes a person of a well com¬ 
posed body, neatly compact, moderately tall, smooth light 
brown hair, ruddy complexion, but intermixed with white; 

m2 


226 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

in disposition, exceedingly agreeable and jocular, loving 
mirth and society; and in general very much respected 
and beloved, whether male or female; but if the latter, 
she will be highly admired, and receive the smiles and 
courtship from numbers, yet subject to evils; if Venus be 
not favourably configurated to the Moon or Jupiter, or 
befriended by the Sun. 

The Moon in Scorpio indicates an ill composed person, 
short, thick, and fleshy, of a very obscure complexion, 
brown or black hair, of a very ill disposed mind, seldom 
endowed with good qualities, and unless ameliorated by 
education, or the Moon favourably configurated to the 
benefies, of a sottish, treacherous and malicious inclination, 
whether male or female; if the latter, she will be subject 
to severe censure, and it is feared not undeserving. 

The Moon in Sagittarius, represents one of a well pro¬ 
portioned body, of an oval face, bright brown hair, and 
rudely or sanguine complexion, of a free and generous 
spirit, passionate, but quickly forgiving; ambitious, and 
aspiring to do great things, of an obliging temper, which 
gains him respect and estimation. 

The Moon in Capricorn describes a person of a low 
stature, and ill complexion, the bedy and face thin and 
spare; brown or light hair, sometimes a defect in the 
knee, no great share of either activity or ingenuity ; and 
if the Moon be not befriended by Jupiter, Venus, or the 
Sun, disposed to mean actions and vicious gratifications, 
and thereby forfeiting all claims to respect, and wholly 
abandoned to opprobrious reflections. 

The Moon in Aquarius, represents a person of a middling 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 227 

stature, well formed, rather corpulent, brown hair, clear 
sanguine complexion, ingenious, very courteous and affa¬ 
ble, inoffensive, loving curiosities and moderate diversions; 
of an inventive and active mind, and seldom guilty of an 
unbecoming act. 

The Moon in Pisces describes a person of a mean stature, 
rather below the middling size, pale complexion, bright 
brown hair, the body plnmp or fat, a person not much de¬ 
lighting in action, unless those of the worst kind, and 
unfortunate in most of their undertakings, however, much 
depends on the Moon’s position \n the figure, and likewise 
her configuration with the other planets. 

The annexed description of the Moon and the other 
planets in the twelve signs, are only fit for Horary As¬ 
trology , as the only true significators in a nativity are, the 
Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and Mid-heaven. These, and no 
other, those who will persist in following the whims of the old 
school, will never find that truth they expect in Astrology. It 
has been chiefly owing to those idle phantoms that the science 
has been so disgraced for many years. We thought when Mr. 
Wilson brought out his ASTROLOGICAL DICTIONA¬ 
RY in 1814, it would have cured some of these soft heads, that 
were so much taken up with the ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES, 
PART of FORTUNE, DRAGON’S HEAD and TAIL, 
which we can certainly confute from experience, as having 
no foundation in nature, which we shall in a future number 
minutely explain to the world . 


228 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OB, 


BIOGRAPHY. 

[Continued from page 206.] 


Let ns now in a few words, and for the conclusion of 
this article, describe the history of the Occult Philosophy. 
Agrippa composed this work in his younger days, and 
shewed it to the Abbot Trethemius, whose pupil he had 
been. Trethemius was charged with it as appears by the 
letter which he wrote to him on the 8th of April, 1810, 
but he advised him to communicate only to those in whom 
he could confide; however, several manuscript copies of 
it were dispersed over Europe. It is not necessary to ob¬ 
serve, that most of them were faulty, which never fails to 
happen in the like cases; and they were preparing to print 
it from one of these bad copies, which made the author re¬ 
solve to publish it himself, with the additions and altera¬ 
tions with which he had embellished it, and it obtained 
the approbation of the Doctors of Divinity, and some other 
persons whom the Emperor’* Council appointed to exa¬ 
mine it. 

After the death of Agrippa, a fourth book was added to 
it by another hand. 

v Jo. Wierus, de Magis, cap. 5, page 108, says, “To these 
books may very justly be added, a work lately published 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 220 

and ascribed to my late honored host and preceptor 
Henry Corn. Agrippa, who has been dead more than forty 
years, whence I conclude that it lias been unjustly ascribed 
to his name, under the title of The Fourth Book of the 
Occult Philosophy, which pretends likewise to be a key to 
the three former books.” 

Agrippa likewise wrote a Commentary on the Art of 
Raymundus Leittius y and a Dissertation on the Original of 
Sin ; wherein he teaches the fall of our parents proceeded 
from unchaste love. He held some uncommon opinions, 
and never any Protestant spoke more forcibly against the 
impudence of Legendaries than he did. He promised a 
work against the Dominicans, which would have pleased 
many persons both within and without the Church of 
Rome. See Agrippa Opera, T. page 2, 1037, where he 
says, “ In the Treatise I am composing of the vices and 
erroneous opinions of the Dominicans, in which I shall 
expose to the whole World their vicious practices, such is 
the sacrament often infected with poison ; numberless 
pretended miracles, kings and princes taken off with 
poison, cities and states betrayed, the people seduced, 
heresies avowed, and the rest of the deeds of these heroes 
and their enormous crimes. 

Agrippa’s three books of Occult Philosophy with the 
fourth were translated into English, and printed in Lon¬ 
don in the year 1651, but they arc now become scarce 
and rarely to be met with, and then only at a great price. 



THE SPIRIT OE PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


£30 


Astrological Anecdote of Tiberius in Exile . 

Tiberius, when in disgrace with Augustus, and in exile, 
addicted himself to the pursuit of Astrology, which science 
was at that time in great repute; amongst many As¬ 
trologers whom he consulted, a circumstance occurred of 
Tlirasullus worthy of record. Whenever Tiberius choosed 
to inquire his future destiny, it was his custom to retire 
with the Astrologer to the top of his house, attended by a 
single freedman, selected for the purpose, illiterate, but of 
great bodily strengt h : this man conducted the Astrologer, 
whose talents were to be tried, along the ridge of the cliff 
on which the mansion stood, and as he returned, if Tibe¬ 
rius suspected fraud or vain affectation of knowledge, he, 
on a signal, threw the imposter into the sea. Tiberius 
was by these means, left at ease, and no witness survived 
to tell the story. Thrasullus, like the others, was put to 
his test: being led along the precipice, he answered a 
number of questions; and not only promised imperial 
splendor, but opened of future events, in a manner that 
tilled his employer with astonishment. Tiberius at length 
desired to know, whether he had cast his own nativity ? 
could he foresee what was to happen to himself in the 
course of that present year ? nay, on that very day ? Thra¬ 
sullus consulted the position of the heavens, and the aspects 
of the planets : he was instantly struck with horror—he 
paused—he hesitated—he sunk into the most profound me¬ 
ditation—terror and amazement shook his frame. Break¬ 
ing silence at last, “ perceive,” he said* “ the crisis of my 


ASTROLOGER S POCKET COMPANION. £Sl 

fate; this very moment may be my last!” Tiberius clasped 
him in his arms, congratulating him both in his .knowledge 
and on his escape from danger. From that moment, he 
considered the predictions of Thrasuilus as the oracles of 
truth; and the Astrologer was ranked with this Prince's 
most intimate friends. 

Anecdote on the Truth of Astrology . 

The death of the Earl of Pembroke was foretold by 
Lady Davy, to happen on his birth day, in the year 1630, 
as you may find in Rushworth’s Collections, page 48, of 
the Second Part. When evening came, he cheerfully took 
notice how w ell he was, saying, he would, for Lady Davy’s 
sake, never trust a female prophetess again; he was, not¬ 
withstanding, found dead in his bed next morning, as they 
said, of an aploplectic fit, as what is generally termed a 
sudden death. He was seventy years of age. See the story 
more at large in Rushworth. Doctor How mentions 
another anecdote, of a gentleman of the King’s Arms in 
the Strand, who, having lost some effects, went to an 
Astrologer to know where and how he might recover them. 
The Astrologer gave him directions; search was made^ 
and the goods recovered y but at the same time told him, he 
would very soon suffer a far greater loss, for at such a time, 
added lie, you will lose your life. This account made the 
gentleman very melancholy, especially as he told him truth 
about his goods. When the day came, he w’asso perplexed, 
that several of his acquaintance kept him company the 
whole day, endervouriugto persuade him of the vanity of 


S32 THE SPIRIT OP partridge; or, 

his fears. They staid with him till eleven o’clock at night, 
“ Now,” said they, “ you may be easy, there is nothing,to 
fear;” on which they all left, and wished him good night. 
The gentleman grew more cheerful, and was preparing for 
bed, when recollecting a book he had left in his closet, and 
which he generally read in before going to bed, went in 
search of it on a shelf, without taking a candle, as he 
knew it by the particular form ; he felt for it, and in search, 
another book fell upon the trigger of a blunderbuss, placed 
in the corner, and which it. seems was cocked, unfortu¬ 
nately, after the loss of his goods, to be ready against 
thieves. The poor gentleman’s head was all shattered to 
pieces by the explosion. This story, Doctor How asserts 
as a well-know r n fact, his uncle having often lain at the inn, 
and had it from the landlord’s own words. 


, 

PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 
EXTRACT X. 

Of the Natives Marriage, fyc. —The Sun and Moon both 
in textile to Jupiter, and in trine to each other from Taurus 
and Virgo , and the Moon and Jupiter applying to a mun¬ 
dane parrallel; the Sun is in sextile to the ascendant, and 
Venus in square to it, and Saturn no ways afflicting the 
significator of marriage, are indubitable signs that the 
native should marry. The Moon in Virgo, a barren sign, 
and a sign of one shape, and in aspect to no oriental planet, 
and but to one occidental besides the Sun and Merenry, 




astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 

Which in this case are all one, should allow him but one 
wife, nor is there any rule here that allows two: the time of 
his marriage should neither be early nor late, but between 
both; and therefore, I judge, he might marry about the 
twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth year of his age; for in mens 
marriages, I esteem eighteen years of age early, and thirty 
years of age late: but in women, I count fifteen early, and 
twenty-five late. And as to the description of his wife, I 
shall take a method quite opposite and contrary, to the 
common way in practice; and therefore I do say positively, 
that the Sun and Jupiter are significators of this gentle¬ 
man’s wife, with a little mixture of Mercury, but that 
concerns her intellect more than her body. These posi¬ 
tions describes her to be a woman well descended, of a 
middle stature, fleshy bodied, and when in years fat, her 
hair brown, or rather brightish, a woman of a high spirit, a 
generous temper, a healthy constitution, ambitious, long- 
lived, and one of much ingenuity and sense; 

But if honest J. G.’b Figure were true, she should be one 
of the worst humoured women in the world for passion 
and pride; for they describe the wife always by the seventh 
houpe, and the planets therein placed, and there we shall 
find Saturn in opposition to Mars, and square to Jupiter; 
and besides, according to their own ru’es, Saturn on her 
Ascendant in opposition to Mars, should give the native a 
wife, but short-lived; tho I confess, lknow no reasoa why 
those two Stars so placed and configurated, should give the 
woman a shorter life than the man. But I confess they 
are not to be asked reasons, for if any one doth give them 
that trouble, it will be without satisfaction to him for hi* 


234 the SPIRIT OF partridge; or, 

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pains, for their notions are apodictical, and their rules 
without reason. 

Of the Native's Children , fyc .—In considering the na¬ 
tive’s children, and their qualification, we must have re^ 
course to the tenth and eleventh houses, and the planets 
placed therein, or in the houses opposite to them; but ia 
this figure we find none in either but Venus, and therefore 
let us consider her with the lord of the tenth and eleventh, 
and the Moon; and we find Jupiter lord of those houses 
in Cancer, a prolific sign, and his own dignities, in Sextile 
to the Sun in the house of Venus, and in Sextile to the 
Moon in the seventh, and also in Parallel with her apply¬ 
ing. These positions shew, that the native should have 
many children; and as Venus was on the cusp of the fourth, 
and the Moon also angular, I should conclude, that the 
major part of them were females: and because Venus is 
free from all manner of affliction, and Jupiter Cadent in 
the sixth, in square both to Saturn and Mars, so I judge 
there were some of the males died before they came to 
ripeness of years, or maturity* That is, children should 
advance to a considerable quality or station, is visible, 
because Jupiter, who is their significator, is in Cancer his 
exaltation, in Sextile to the Sun and Moon, the fountains 
of promotion and honour; but perhaps some may object 
and say, you might have spared your labour in that point, 
and not pretend to give a reason for it by the Stars, seeing 
their father was advanced to a degree to make his children 
as great as himself, and leave them in possession of such a 
power, as to be able to defend themselves when he was 
gone, To this I answer, that there is no man riseth to any 


ASTROLOGER’S POCKET COMPANION. 235 

great and remarkable post or station, but he must have 
great and illustrious positions for so doing and acting; and 
it is very probable, that some of those Stars that give him 
his honour, may be also significators of his children, and so 
gives an illustrious issue, as well as an honourable parent. 
But besides, we find Jupiter in square both to Mars and 
Saturn, as well as in Scxtile to the Sun and Moon, which 
did also shew rubs and misfortunes in their lives, which I 
shall leave to the reader to judge, whether it was verified 
or not. And observe, that a poor man as well as a rich 
man, may have famous and eminent children; and a rich 
man as well as a poor man, may have poor, dejected, and 
infamous children, and this from principles in nature, and 
rules in Astrology, without any inquiry to true Divinity, or 
the Great Being. But to conclude this paragraph,! desire 
all those who are angry with my method injudgingonthis 
subject, as well as the whole Figure besides, that they 
would forbear quarrelling with me, and fall upon Ptolomy ; 
but first let me advise them to understand him. 

[Tobe continued.] 






£55 THE SPIRIT OF TARTRIDGF, &tf. 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

J. II. is informed that he had better wait till after next 
June, before he commences in business, as the directions 
operating in his nativity, at the present are very discordant. 

Q. R. will find an example in our next, perhaps, how to 
manage a Revolution Figure by Logarithms. 

We feel obliged to all our correspondents for their kind 
assistance; but do not wish to receive any communication 
but what relates to Astrology, therefore, the Gentleman 
who sent a parcel of M.S. relating to Magic, may have them 
back, by applying at our publiser where he left them. 

If U. X. can inform us the correct time, we may be likely 
to answer his request, without which we cannot. 

If C. D. calls at our publisher, he will find a letter for 
him. 

We feel obliged to W. L. B-h for the Nativity of 

Dr. Mitchel, being curious. 

X. O. K. has been received, but too late for insertion, as 
it required some little alteration. 

P.G. is informed that he may obtain a moveabIe*Diagram 
at our publisher, which will shew every aspect at one view. 

ERRATA. 

No. X. p. 259.1.11, for obstruse angle, read obtuse angle, 
p. 216,1. 4, fur to circle of friends, tend to a circle 
of friends. 

1. 5, for prabable, read probable. 


All communications to be addressed to the Editor, post¬ 
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Grand. 


Davis & Dickson, Printers, 

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THE 

SPIRIT ©P PARTRIDGE; 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 


OBSERVATIONS 

On the Nativity of his late Majesty Geo. Ill . 

[Continued from page 222.] 

The next he mentions is in the monlh of August I780i 
Margaret Nicholson made an attempt upon Ins Majesty’s 
life as he was alighting from his carriage, at the gate at St. 
James's Palace: the Moon was then direct to the square 
of Mars. 

[Now then as this happened when his Majesty was about 
48 years of age , we must look for some direction to corres¬ 
pond, as we are quite certain no such direction as the Moon 
to the square of Mars was then operating either in the Zodiac 
or in Mundo, for if yon observe , the square of Mars in Man- 
do falls just below the west angle; therefore , the Moon being 
in the sixth house t could not meet the square of Mars converse f 
a7id the arc of directions of the Moon to the square of Mars 
dd. is about 18° 20‘, and as the Moon was in Zodiacal square 
to Mars at birth f she could not meet it again at 48 years of 
age ) Now then we will inform you what directions came 
up, viz.—the Moon tQtlie Biquintile of Mars converse, the 
Sun to the Mundane parallel of Mars dd.; followed by the 
Sun to the conjunction of Jupiter in Mundo converse, the 
Sun to the Trine of the Moon in Mundo, the Sun to the 
Scxtile of Mars in Mundo dd., the Sun to the Semiquartile 


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astrologer’s pocket companion. 239 

of Mercury in Mundo converse, these were operating from 
48 to 49* The next he mentions is St. Vincent’s Victory^ 
being obtained from the effect of the Mid-heaven to the 
Sextile of Mars, (when his Majesty was about 58 years 
and eight months of age) followed by the Sun to the Trine 
of Mars, under which direction Duncan’s Victory and the 
Battle of the Nile were obtained. The directions then 
operating were as follows, viz. —The Moon to the Trine of 
Venus i»i the Zodiac with latitude, the Sun to the Square of 
J upiter dd. the Mid-heaven to the Sextile of Mars in Mundo, 
the Moon to the Trine of Mercury dd., the Sim to the Trine 
of Mars in the Zodiac, and the Sun to the Mundane parallel 
of Mars converse. So you may see here were some evil 
directions as well as good ones, and whoever chooses to give 
himself the trouble to look into His lory, will find that theBank 
of England stopped payment, also the fleet mutinied, and a 
rebellion in Ireland broke out about the same time. 

The next event Mr. C. mentions was the Union of Ireland 
being effected, and at the same period, Hatfield made 
an attempt to assassinate his Majesty, at which time the 
Mid-heaven was directed to the conjunction of the Sun. 
(The directions then operating were as follows, viz. —The 
Mid-heaven to the Conjunction of the Sun, the Ascendant 
to the Square of the Sun in Mundo, the Sun to the Sextile 
of Venus in Mundo converse, the Moon totheSemiquartile 
of Mars in Mundo dd.) 

He then goes on about the Battle of Trafagar being ob¬ 
tained from the effect of the Sun to his own Sextile, and 
that his Majesty’s indisposition took place from the Moon 
to the Mundane parallel of Mars, and that the various vie- 


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.210 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

torifcs that have taken place since, have been from the effect 
of the Mid-heaven to the Quintile of Mars in Mundo, the 
Sun to the Trine of Mars in Mundo, the latter of which is 
in this geniture a great and glorious direction. (His latter 
observation may do for some novice, but not for us, as we feel 
certain we shall find some other direction more satisfactory . 
The directions then in force were as follows, viz.—The Sun 
to the Mundane parallel of Jupiter dd., the Sun to the 
Sextile of Saturn in Mundo converse, the Sun to the 
Zodiacal Semiquartileof Mercury, the Moon to the Sextile 
of Jupiter in Mundo dd., the Sun to the Zodiacal Semi- 
quartile of Saturn, the Sun to hisown Sextile in the Zodiac, 
the Sun to the Sextile of Mercury in Mundo, the Sun to 
the Zodiacal Semiquartile of Venus, the Sun to the Rapt, 
parallel of Mercury, the Sun to the Rapt parallel of Saturn, 
the Moon to the Mundane parallel of Mars dd., the Mid- 
heaven to the Quintile of Mars in Mundo, the Ascendant 
to the Biquintile of Jupiter in Mundo, the Sun to theTrineof 
Mars in Mundo, the Moon to the Sesquiquadrale of Saturn 
pi Mundo converse, (here it is worth observing, that scarcely 
any event took place with his Majesty of any good, but some 
direction of Jupiter teas operating; and, on the contrary. 
Mars is equally injurious, as any person may see by looking 
■ over these directions, accompanied by the History of Eng¬ 
land, ) 

The next he notices is the following directions for 1S15» 
and the succeeding years, viz.—The Ascendant to the 
Square of Mercury, the Ascendant to the Square of Saturn 
the Ascendant to the Square of Venus. There are also 
various other important directions in this geuiture which 


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accurately correspond with the events which have hap¬ 
pened, and will be worth the attention of the young Tyro, 
and serve as a praxis for calculations. 

The directions here given by Mr. Cooper are much out 
in time, as the arc of direction, of the Ascendant to the 
•Square of Mercury is about 77° 5% which, according to 
Naibod’s measure of time, gives 78 years and two months, 
and by the Placidian measure 77 years. The arc of direc¬ 
tion of the Ascendant to the square of Saturn is 79° ; by 
Naibod’s measure gives eighty years and two months 
nearly; but by the Placidian measure seventy-nine years. 
These are the directions wrought by Mr. Cooper for his 
Majesty’s decease. We shall noiv proceed to give the direc¬ 
tions that were in force, viz .—The Moon to the Sesquiqua- 
drate of Saturn in Muudo converse, the Ascendant to the 
Square of Mercury in Mundo, the Moon to the Square of 
the Sun without latitude, the Moon to the Sesqui quad rate 
of Mercury ip Mundo converse, the Moon to the Biquintile 
of the Sun in Mundo, the Mid-heaven to the Sextile of 
Jupiter in Mundo, the Sun to the Mundane Parellel of 
Jupiter converse, the Sun to the Zodiacal Sextile of 
Jupiter, the Ascendant to the Square of Venus in Muudo, 
the Moon to the Zodiacal parallel of Jupiter. These 
were the directions that were in operation between 
77 and 82 years of age, which we presume sufficient to 
satisfy our readers as to the power of directions in na¬ 
tivities, let the writer in The World of Fashion, page 
169 , say what he will. However, at the same time, we have 
no doubt but what those transits greatly assisted. If in 
case he should wish to come to a decision on this point, let 


242 TIIE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

him give a true nativity, and point out to us where direc¬ 
tions failed, and then we will undertake to set him in the 
right way, as we feel quite certain he has in some way 
neglected this important point. 

It may also be proper to notice, that if PJacidus, Mr. 
Partridge, Dr. Wright, Mr. Bishop, Dr. Buttler. Dr* 
Brown, Mr. Harris, Mr. Lambert, and Mr. JamesWright* 
who spent most part of their lives investigating directional 
motions in nativities, could not see whether directions or 
transits had the most effect. We do not think it will be 
in the power of Mr. English to decide on that point, how¬ 
ever let him try, and we shall be able to satisfy the public 
as to the truth of his new system, We shall next proceed 
to give judgment on the Revolutional Figure preceding 
his Majesty’s decease, (see the Figure in the front page of 
this number.) 

\ 

[To be continued.] 

j 

; 1 ilH ! J . .» 1. 

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF THE 
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 

The ZODIAC is an imaginary belt, eighteen degrees 
broad through the middle, of which passes the eliptic. 
Astrologers have divided this into Twelve Signs, to each, 
of which they have given the name of some animal: thus, 
the constellation Aries is supposed to resemble a Ram, 
Scorpio a Scorpion, &c.; however, by the precession of 
the equinoctial points, the constellations do not occupy the 


astrologer’s pocket companion. £43 

spaces originally assigned them, for the constellation Aries 
lias now advanced to the sign Taurus. 

Astrologers have assigned certain effects to each sign 
when ascending, they have also allotted to every planet 
certain signs, of which each planet is called the Lord or 
Ruler. 

The translation of Ptolemy* has the following note on 
the subject, “from this chapter (the 25th chap, book I, of 
the Tetrabiblos) it is clear that the respective influences 
he ascribes to the Twelve Signs (or divisions of the Zodiac) 
were considered by him appurtenant to the places they oc¬ 
cupied, and not to the Stars of which they are composed. 

has expressly and repeatedly declared, that the point 
of the vernal equinox is ever the begining of the Zodiac, 
and that the thirty degrees following it ever retain the 
same virtue as that which he has in this work attributed to 
Aries, although the Stars forming Aries may have quitted 
those degrees j the next thirty degrees are still to be ac¬ 
counted as Taurus, and so of the rest. There is an abun- 
dent proofthrough theTetrabiblos, that Ptolemy considered 
the virtues of the constellations distinctly from those of the 
places they occupied.” Admitting this to be the opinion 
of Ptolemy, we certainly can see nothing reasonable in 
the proposition. What effect cau empty spaces divided into 
degrees, wholly imaginary, produce on any individual, or 
can a certain number of lines, called degrees of the Zodiac, 
exert any attractive power to alter the fate of any native. 

If the Stars, and which we conclude must be the case, 


* The New Translation. 


244 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

produce certain effects, the qualit'es attributed by Astrolo¬ 
gers in the sign Aries should be transferred to Taurus, and 
so of the rest, as the constellation Aries now occupies the 
space assigned to the sign Taurus. 

The advocates for essential dignities should at least, for 
the sake of consistency, find some theory to extricate them¬ 
selves from this dilemma, either the imaginary spaces of 
the Zodiac have sufficient influence to make one man tall 
and another short, without any regard to the Stars placed 
therein, or these sapient gentlemen have all along mis¬ 
taken the effects of one sign for those of another. Ptolemy 
in speaking of the nature of Aries, distinctly mentions the 
Stars composing it; while in 4iis chapter on the houses of 
the planets, lie says, “these Stars which are denominated 
planetary orbs, hare particular familiarity with certain 
places in the Zodiac by means of pai ts, designated as their 
houses, and also by their triplicities, exaltations, terms, and 
so forth.” And again, in the chapter on the annual seasons, 
“The beginning of the whole Zodiacal circle, (which, in 
its nature as a circle, can have no other begining or end 
capable of being determined) is, therefore, assumed to he 
the sign of Aries,which commences at the vernal equinox.” 
Also in the 2.5th chapter, book 1, he has these words, “the 
beginings of the signs, and likewise those of the terms, are 
to be taken from the equinoctial and tropical points. 

This rule is not only clearly stated by writers on the 
subject, but is also especially evident, by the demonstration 
continually afforded, that their natures, influences, and 
familiarities, have no other origin than fro.n the tropics 
and equinoxes, as has been already shewn. It appears 


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245 


From this, tiiat Ptolemy founded his essential dignities on 
these imaginary divisions of the Zodiac; while lie con¬ 
sidered the Stars of the Constellations to produce an effect 
totally independent of the spaces in which they were 
placed. In fact, the fixed Stars have but little effect, unless 
they agree with the Planets in a particular manner, (which 
will be more fully described in a future number) what in¬ 
fluence an imaginary circle divided into a number of 
degrees called signs, equally imaginary, can have on the 
fortune of any individual,—we must leave the admirers of 
Ptolemy to decide, if the advocates of essential dignities 
cannot bring reasons more convincing than those of Ptole¬ 
my, we must be excused for disbelieving that which 
appears to be wholly repugnant to reason and common 
sense. Again, Ilers£hel, at the time Ptolemy wrote, was 
undiscovered, although experience shows his power is 
scarcely inferior to any of the old planets, he has had iio 
dignities allotted to him ; therefore what becomes of the 
orderly arrangement which has excited so much admira¬ 
tion in the breast of some late Astrologers. Some learned 
correspondent in a late publication,who said he found him¬ 
self very clever, proposed to rectify this by giving him 
some of the sign Aquarius, and recommended business to 
be carried on in future under the firm of Saturn, Herschel 
5c Co. 

We shall now proceed to give the Signs of the Zodiac 
according to the general system of Astrologers, at the same 
time, it is necessary to remark, that allhough the doctrine 
of Essential Dignities is wholly inadmiss able in nativities, 
yet in horary questions (in which any symbol may be ad- 

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S46 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

mitted if it be constantly adhered to) it will be found of 
eminent use. 

ARIES. 

Quality, &c.—Aries (<t) is the first sign of the Zodiac, 
of short ascension, the day house of Mars, and exaltation of 
the Sun,* and is a masculine equinoctial cardinal, moveable, 
fiery, four-footed, eastern sign of the fiery triplicitv, and 
consists of about Twelve Stars. 

Description of Persons —Of middling stature, airy body, 
lean and spare, strong bones and limbs, piercing hazel eye, 
long neck, thick shoulders, sallow or swarthy complexion, 
sandy coloured wirery or red hair, with small ears and feet, 
the disposition is violent and intemperate, which is the 
natural effects of this sigu. But if Jupiter or Venus be in 
Ascendant, it materially alters both the constitution and 
complexion of the person for the better; but if Saturn, 
Mars, or Herschel be posited there, judge the contrary, 
(here the student ought minutely examine the Figure, find 
see what configuration the planets have to each other; also 
what configuration they make to the Ascendant , which is of 
the utmost consequence in giving judgment. 

Parts of Man’s Body. —It governs the head and face. 
Diseases. —Small pox, measles, ringworms, shingles, 
epilepsy, apoplexy, fevers, convulsions, palsy, megrims, 
tooth-ach, head-aeh, scurf, aud all disorders proceeding 
from heat and dryness. 

* The remainder of the essential dignities of the Planets belong¬ 
ing to this sign will begiven in a Table, 


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6 5 
6 19 


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0 17 
0 17 
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8 50 


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0 15 
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astrologer’s pocket companion. 247 

Kingdoms and Cities subjeotto the sign v —Germany, 
Britain, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Less Poland, 
Syria, Judea, Burgandy, Palestine,Naples, Capua, Ancona, 
Verona, Florence, Ferrara, Padua, Marseilles, Selesia, 
Saragossa, Utrecht, Crowcow, Augusta, &c. 

Places. —Aries signifies obscure hilly places, or those not 
much frequented (unless by thieves) as ruinous places, the 
tops of houses, lime or brick kilns, and where small cattle 
feed, See. 

Colour. —Is white mixed with red. 

/ 


TAURUS. 


Quality. —Taurus (&) is the second sign of the Zodiac, 
of short ascension, the night house of Venus and fxaltatioil 
of the Moon, and is a vernal, cold, dry, earthy, melancholy, 
feminine, nocturnal fixed sign j unfortunate, fourfpoted 
crooked, northern, commanding, and hoarse: it is of the 
earthy triplicity, and contains about twenty-three Stars. 

Description of Person. —It denotes a short thick 
stature, full face, dark curling hair, a swarthy complexion, 
broad brow, thick lips, wide nose'and mouth, short thick 
broad hand ; in disposition very unfeeling, slow to anger, 
melancholy, but when once enraged, violent, furious, and 
difficult to be appeased. 

Parts of Man’s Body. —It governs the neck and 
throat. 

Diseases.— Are consumption, scrophuia, croup, raelan-. 


«4S the spirit op partridge; or, 

choly, deduction of rheum, putrid sore throat, quinse}> 
wens in the neck, king’s evil. See 

Kingdoms and Cities subject to ft are Ireland, Gr f ;>t 
Poland, White Russia, Holland, Persia, Hess Asia, the 
Achipelago, Mantua, Leipsic, Parma, and Nantz, 1‘ran- 
conia> Lorraine, Sens, Bythynia, Cyprus, &c. 

Places. —'Taurus signifies cellars, out-houses, stables, 
places where cows are kept, pastures, commons, corn fields, 
and such places as are remote from house*, ground lately 
cleared of bushes and fresh sown, valleys, or low land. 

Colours.— is red mixed with white or citron. 

i 

GEMINI. 

Quality. —Gemini (n) is the third sign of the Zodiac, 
of short ascension, the day house of Mercury, and exalta¬ 
tion of the Dragon’s Head. It is in nature a vernal, hot, 
moist, sanguine, masculine, northern, commanding, diurnal, 
double bodied, humane, barren, common, whole, change¬ 
able, fortunate, bicorporal, sweet sign, of the airy triplicity; 
it contains about eighteen Stars. 

Description of Persons.—I t signifies a person of tall 
stature, well made, sanguine complexion, not very clear, 
the arms long, but some times the hands and feet short and 
fleshy. 

Parts of Man’s Body. —It governs the hands, arms, 
and shoulders. 

Diseases. —Are the brain fever, corrupt blood, fractures 
in the head and arms, &c. 


astrologer's pocket companion. 249 

Kingdoms and Cities. —America, Flanders, Lombar¬ 
dy, Sardinia, Loudon, Armonia, Lower Egypt, the South¬ 
west part of England, Verse dies, Brabant, Wittenberg, 
Mentz, Bruges, Louvaine, Cordova, Nuremberg, &.c. 

Places —It signifies all high rooms, wainscot, plastering, 
walls, coffers, chests, barns, storehouses for corn, hills, 
mountains, high places, &c. 

Colours. —Is red and white. 


CANCER, 

Quality— Cancer (3) is the fourth sign of the Zodiac, 
of long ascension, the only house of the Mpon, and exalta* 
tion of Jupiter, is an estival, cold, watery, moist, phlegms, 
tic, feminine, cardinal, tropical, northern, commanding, 
nocturnal, moveable, fruitful, weak, unfortunate, crooked, 
mute sign, of the watery triplicity, and contains about nine 
Sta's. 

Description of Person —One of a fair complexion, 
rather pale, of short and small stature, the upper part of 
the body generally large, with a round face, brown hair, 
and grey eyes, mostly phlegmatic and heavy, effeminate 
constitution, and small voice j if a woman, likely to have 
many children. 

Parts of the Body. —It governs the breast, ribs,lungs, 
liver, pleura, and verticle of the stomach 

Diseases. —Are all disorders of the breast and stomach, 
pleurisies, indigestion, shortness of bicath, want of appetite, 
imposlhumes, asthmas and consumptions. 


I 


850 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

Kingdoms and Cities. —It governs Scotland, Holland, 
Zealand, Burgandy, Africa, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Con¬ 
stantinople, Amsterdam, Cadiz, Venice, Genoa, Magde- 
bourg, York, St. Andrew’s and New York. 

Places. —It signifies all moist places, the sea, great 
rivers, navigable waters, brooks, springs, ponds, wells, 
cisterns, wash-houses, &c. 

Colours.— Are green and russet. 

[To be continued.] 


TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ SPIRIT OF 
PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

Having purchased one of those moveable 
Diagram’s you recommended me in your last number, l 
shall feel extremely obliged to you (if it would not be in¬ 
truding on your kindness) to give some explanation of its 
use, as I am not Astrologer sufficient to comprehend it per¬ 
fectly. And at the same time, if you would inform me if 
there has been anything else of the kind ever published; 
perhaps some of your correspondents can inform me, as I 
should wish to have everything that may any way assist 
ine. In so doing, you will certainly oblige 

Your constant Subscriber, 
P. G. 

P. S. I should have no objection to pay any person who 
would undertake to teach me Astrology, and will wait ou 
them any time that suits them. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 




PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATIVE 
EXTRACT XI. 

Of ike Native's Long Journies , $•<?.—By long journies, we 
commonly understand those of the Sea, in going into other 
kingdoms or nations, which our common trade Astrologers 
judge from the ninth house, and it* lord; but I pass by 
that, and say, that the signifieator of long journies in tins 
figure is the Moon, (as he that pleaseth may read more at 
large, Mb. 4, cap. 9 , Quadripar) and as she is ia Trine to the 
Sun, in Trine to Mercury, her dispositer, and in Sextile to 
Jupiter; so his journies should be about great and eminent 
actions and business, and the issue of them should be great, 
famous, and fortunate; for you see the Moon is no ways 
afflicted, neither were his undertakings beyond Sea in his 
own person without success and glory, he always coming 
home victor and conqueror. But if we should accept and 
judge by J. G.’s figure, and take either Jupiter or Saturn, 
they having both of them dominion in the ninth house, but 
Jupiter the most power, his long journies would have been 
(by that position) full of labour, toil, trouble, and generally 
without success; but if that should have given success, 
it would have been attended with much difficulty and 
doubtfulness. 

Of the Natives Honour and Grandeur. —How, and to 
what degree of greatness this gentleman did arrive, is 
known to the whole world, and therefore I shall directly 
examine the causes of it astrologically, without any further 


H&2 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

inquiry into the Modus Acquirendi ; seeing he was really 
possessed of the greatest power that the dominion of Eng¬ 
land was able to give him. 

In his radicaj figure we find six of the seven planets 
essentially fortified, according to the dignities allowed them 
by Ptolomyjib. 1., for Saturn and Jupiter are in their ex¬ 
altations ; Mars in his own house, Venus in her own house. 
Mercury in Taurus in reception with the Moon in Virgo; 
and what is yet more, the Moon, who is the J.umen Cun - 
ditionarium, is oriental from the Sun, is angular in sextile 
to Jupiter , and in trine to the Sun and Mercury, h»r 
depositor; and what is yet more, the position of Saturn, 
Jupiter, and Mars, are perhaps the most considerable of 
all, they all casting their benefick beams to the tenth 
house, the angle of honour and preferment; and they also 
in those signs which we call Cardinal, and are in the Zo- 
diack, equal to those points that we call Angles in the 
Figure. And these are the reasons that I give for this 
native’s risiag and advancement: and as the three supe¬ 
riors are in the Cardinal Signs, in Square and Opposition 
one to another, so you see he attained his grandeur by a 
kind of violence, force, and labour, joined and assisted 
with power: and by that means and method he main¬ 
tained it all his time. 

The birth is nocturnal, and the Moon is light of the time 
in an angle, and her Satellites or Stipatores, according to 
Ptolomy , are the Sun , Mercury , Jupiter , ami Venus, she 
beingin Trine and Sextile to them all; nay, arid we may 
reckon Saturn and Mars too, for she is in a Zodiacal parallel 
with them also applying; and the three Superiors, according 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 263 

to his rule, are, two of them in Trine , and one in Sextile to 
the Mid-heaven, and all of them applying likewise, and 
Jupiter lord of the tenth, the angle of honour To which 
I will add this observation, that neither Sun nor Moon 
is any ill aspect with any of the Planets, nor any of the 
Planets placed to his disadvantage in the figure. 

Th^ Sun, who is always significator of honour, glory, 
and reputation, is likewise free from all ill circumstances, 
and in Trine to the Moon, Sextile of Jupiter, and Con¬ 
junction with Mercury and Mars just rising before him. 
Which if compared and considered with the following 
chapter of Ptolomy, shows, that arms and armies would be 
the practice of his life, the delight of his soul, and by these 
things he would raise his honour and fortune. 

The great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, in the 
year 1623, in the 7th degree of Leo, n^ar the cusp of his 
seventh house, Trine to Mars in his second, and in Sextile 
o Saturn in his eighth, was none of the smallest causes of 
his greatness and promotion ; neither was that Conjunc* 
tion in the year 1643, which was on the cusp of his second, 
in exact Trine to his Tenth house, and in Sextile to Venus. 

Why so long before he. began to rise and appear in the 
world. —But perhaps it may seem strange to some, why 
he was so old before he began to appear upon the stage of 
Mundane affairs; which tiling is not indeed very strange, 
'because all the Planets are in occidental parts of Heaven, 
Jupiter and Venus excepted ; and none angular but Venus 
and the Moon , all the rest being either in cadent or sue- 
cedent houses, which always give what they promise in 
the latter part of the life; and this is the more confirmed 


234 TI 1 E SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE; OR, 

too, if wc observe, that all but the Moon and Saturn are 
under the earth. So that if the positions are but really 
perpended, it will seem no strange thing that this Native 
did not advance and rise sooner. But i fJ. G's figure should 
be allowed, all the Planets are angular but the Moon; 
which must, without doubt, give the Native his honour and 
preferment early, even in his younger years, which it is 
plain he had not I confess, 1 have no authority from 
Pioiomy for this judgment of the time and age, w hen the 
Native shall receive those things of honour promised him 
in his Radix ; he only speaking to the thing in general, Si- 
diynittem , vel non, habeat. But my experience in many 
nativities, and the method by which we judge early and 
late marriages, which is much after the same manner, 
with some other things that I have formerly remarked in 
the same case, is sufficient for me to believe that this 
method is not improper to be followed and practised in 
judgiagthis, and things of this nature. 

Of the Native's Friends and Enemies , fyc. —Ptolomy 
makes a distinction between friends and friends, and 
enemies and enemies; for he calls nothing friendship, 
but what is durable and entirely real; and all the rest of it 
he calls familiarity^ and the effect of conversation and so¬ 
ciety. By enemies and enmity, he understands a perfect 
radical ai d perpetual hate. All the other things of dif¬ 
ference, debate, and controversy, he looks upon it to be 
nothing more than little accidents or casualties in con¬ 
versation. And to consider and judge of these, he doth 
not make use of the eleventh house as the manner is; but 
considers the Sun , Moon f Part of Fortune and Horoscope; 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


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and his reason is, because he judgeth friendship and amity 
among men, to be either for council, pleasure or proft ; and 
indeed upon some or all of these principles, men do gene¬ 
rally love and support, or differ and destroy one another, 
and therefore his judgment is founded upon reason. 

In the radical figure we find the Sun, Moon, o nd As¬ 
cendant well befriended by the rays of the other Stars, but 
the Part of Fortune is in parallel both to Saturn and Mars, 
both hi Zediaeo, and 31 undo , and Mars , who comes very 
near Ptolcmj/s rule, who is in his own house, and not 

much above 17 degrees distant from the Sun (ascending) 

■ 

by the oblique ascention, is in Square to Jupiter, and Op¬ 
position with Saturn ; the Moon is in reception w ith Mer¬ 
cury, and all the rest of the Planets in their ow n dignities, 
except the Sun. Hence it is reasonable to judge, t hat this 
Native should have both mgny friends, and many enemies; 
and as the Part of Fortune is afflicted most of the four, so I 
judge the hatred of his enemies was real, and the cause of 
it was, because of his profit and advantage he received 
w ith his power and honour. Besides, Venus is in Square 
to the Ascendant, which might raise him some enemies 
that did envy him for the pleasure and ease of his life, and 
other things that were the advantageous circumstances of 
his station he w as in, at the latter end of his days. While 
he was in the army he had many enemies, and they none 
of the ordinary people, but the parliament was his friend 
at all times. - 




[To be continued.] 


' 


•256 THE SPIRIT OF PARTR 1 DGF, Sit. 

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

X. O. K.’s article does not correspond with the date, as he 
may see by inspecting Goldsmith’s History of England. 

P. G. is informed that there is another circular Diagram, 
which exhibits the Essential Dignities of the Planets, the whole 
of the Aspects, and the time of the Sun’s entrance into the dif¬ 
ferent Signs. We are not aware that there are any more, but 
have inserted his letter, as some of our correspondents may 
inform him of those particulars. 

Q. R. must excuse our promise as to giving an example how 
to manage a Revolutional Figure by Logarithms in the present 
number, for want of room. 

J. W. is informed that the Figure of her late Majesty Queen 
Caroline that appeared in the Straggler, is not correct; for the 
erred one see our first number , which was forwarded from her late 

Majesty, (when residing at Blakheath) by Miss W -n to 

Mr. James Wright, of Mead’s Row, Westminster Road, for h s 
opinion. And the same time was publicly given in the Monthly 
Correspondents for 1314, as before mentioned in cur first 
number. 


ERRATA , in a few Copies only. 

Na. XI. p, 218, 1. 3, for opinion on it, read of it. 
p. 219, 1. 9,/or up from, read for. 

1. 20, instead of or Ptolemy, read on Ptolemy, 
p. 220, 1. 13, for done, read did. 
p. 223, 1. 18, for accidental, read occidental, 
p. 227, 1. 19, for fantoms, read phantoms, 
p. 230,1, 1. for August, read Augustus. 

]. 12, for affections, read affectation. 

1 . ’■27, for cries, readerhes. 
p. 221,1. 25, for good, lead goods, 
p. 236, 1. 5, for Logarithems, read Logarithms. 


All communications to be addressed to the Editor, post¬ 
paid, at Messrs. Davis and Dickson, 17, St, Martin’s-le- 
Grand. 


Davis & Dickson, Printers, 
St. MartinVle-Grand, London. 





THE 

SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; 

OR, THE 

ASTROLOGER'S POCKET COMPANION , 


AND 

GENERAL MAGAZINE. 


No. XIII. 


SATURDAY. 


[Price 4 d. 


FIGURE FOR Mr. HARRIS’S ASCENT. 



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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE } OR# 


POSITION OF THE PLANETS 

At theTime of Mr. Harris ascending in his Balloon 3 
from the Eagle Tavern, City Road. 

The time was given us by a gentleman who was on the 
spot at the time of his ascending from the Earth, ( allowing 
it to stand as a horary question , whether he would he success¬ 
ful in his undertaking or not,) and we think it altogether 
a remarkable figure, proving the truth of horary Astrology. 
Jn the first place, we shall just observe how persons might 
benefit in their undertakings by Horary Astrology , which will 
always point out their success therein: —Venus rules the 
Ascendant, who with the Moon are his significators, and 
here we find the Moon in Aries on the west angle in op¬ 
position to the Ascendant, and is just separating from the 
Square of Herschel, who is in opposition to J upiter from 
the third and ninth houses, (houses of short and long 
journies,) which shows a dangerous voyage; next we find 
Venus near the cusp of the eighth house (house of death,) 
and Mercury, lord of the eleventh (house of hopes) is 
posited in the eighth, indicating danger of death; and 
lastly, Saturn, a malific lord of the fourth house (which 
shows the end of the business in all questions) is placed in 
the eighth house, which plainly shows his undertaking 
would prove his death. Indeed, to speak the truth, we 
scarcely ever beheld a figure that protended more danger. 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 259 

as all persons will allow, who knows anything of Horary 
Astrology. In addition to these remarks, we find at the 
same time, that tiie opposite degree of Saturn in his 
nativity was ascending, and as this happened near his 
birth day, (which is the time the Sun returns to his Zodiacal 
position , when the hearing of all the planets are correct , 
which is of the greatest importance as far as regards a true 
transit) consequently the Moon was on the place of Saturn, 
which is extremely unfortunate in any undertaking where 
life was depending, likewise Mars was also in Zodiacal 
Square to his Ascendant, so on the whole of it, he could 
not have chosen a more unfortunate time for his ascend¬ 
ing. As to the remarks in The Straggler (page 61 ) is very 
nonsensical, being quite void of reason, particularly where 
the writer makes mention about the opposition, Saturn and 
Jupiter being rulers of the seventh and eighth, causing a 
violent death. 

Iri some future number we shall give the direction in 
Mr. Harris’s Nativity. 


REMARKS 

On the Revolutional Figure of his late Majesty 
GEO . Ill . 

[Continued from page 242.] 

Previously to considering the Revolutional Figure 
before us, it may not be improper to offer a few remarks on 
these Figures in general. A Revolutional Figure is erected 


f60 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 

for the time the Sun arrives at the same point in the 
eliptic, which he occupied at birth. Many Astrologers 
have been so simple as to suppose that the “sign of the 
sixth house of the Radix ascending in the Revolution, and 
the lord of the sixth posited in the fourth, portends a 
dangerous year to the life of the nativewhence the 
danger arises they have not told us, and perhaps they 
would be exceedingly puzzled to assign any satisfactory 
reason for such a conclusion; they have also made many 
other equally acute remarks, founded on the Essential 
Dignities of the Planets. 

Gadbury remarks, that the lord of the Ascendant in the 
Radix in conjunction with the lord, if the eighth of the* 
Revolution in the eighth, is very dangerous to the life of 
the native. We should like to know if the Sun were lord 
of the Ascendaat, and hyleg in conjunction with Jupiter 
lord of the eighth, whether it portended illness; we should 
have no objection ourselves to have such a Revolution. 
The fact is, no attention whatever need be paid to the 
degree ascending, and we should not have given it at the 
present instance, had it not been to exemplify the method 
of erecting a Revolutional Figure, at the request of a cor¬ 
respondent. 

The true reason that many Astrologers paid such atten¬ 
tion to the time of the Sun’s return to his radical place, is 
this, they found whatever transits were made at that time 
were very powerful, and consequently produced remark¬ 
able alterations in the native’s affairs. The cause of this 
is explained in our article upon Transits (page 164) in con¬ 
sequence of the Sun coming to his original positior, the 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 

planets have ail the same bearings they had at birth, 
therefore, then only can a true transit, be made, as the 
Sun advances in the eliptic the geocentric positions alter ; 
and although a planet may appear to pass over the place 
of another, yet as the Earth has passed from her original 
place, the transit produces no effect. 

This is one cause why so many Astrologers have failed 
in their predictions; and the generality of mankind have 
not omitted to visit the sins of the professors, upon the art 
itself, without reflecting upon the liability of students to 
error in a science, which has been so little examined. 
We shall now proceed to examine his Majesty’s Revolutional 
Figure; it may be necessary to observe, that Iferschel was 
in about 6° of Capricorn, this was omitted in the Radical 
Figure, as it would have been unfair to blame Mr. Cooper 
for not taking into consideration that with which he was 
unacquainted. In this Figure, we find the Moon in op¬ 
position to Mars, who is on the Radical place of Jupiter: 
Hersehel is in Square to Saturn in the Revolution, he is 
also in opposition to Saturn in the Radix, and the latter 
transits the Square of his own place, and the places of 
Mercury and Venus; and it is worthy of notice, that 
Saturn was near the place of the fatal direction, viz :—the 
Ascendant to the Square of Saturn. These combined 
with the powerful operating direction, taking into con¬ 
sideration the many trying directions he had already passed, 
and above all, his very advanced age, we think quite suf¬ 
ficient to produce death. We shall just conclude this 
article, by observing, that the only judgment that can be 


202 the spirit of partridge; or, 

formed from a [{evolutional Figure, is to observe how the 
jjlanets agree with their Zodiacal places, and the direction 
in the nativity. 


AN EXPLANATION 

To the Moveable Astronomical Diagram , as 
requested by a Correspondent • 

This Instrument exhibits at one view the whole of the 
configurations the Moon makes to all the other planets; so 
that any one,with the assistance of White’s Ephemeris, may 
know what aspects the Moon has to the other planets in the 
course of the day (by moving the pointer, as will be here¬ 
after described) which will be found eminently useful to 
those who study Astrology, or make remarks on the 
weather or tides, which chiefly depend on that luminary* 
the Moon. 

The Moon commands the seas; she drives the main 
To pass the shore, then drives it back again: 

And this sedition chiefly swells the streams, * 

When opposite she views her brother’s beams; 

Or when she near inclose conjunction rides, 

She rears the flood, and swells the flowing tides. 

Example.*—Supposing it were required to know what 
configuration the}Moon has to the other planets, on the 
2Sd day of September, 1822, at noon. The places of the 
planets are as under discribed:— 

3* 25M? « 9<> 19*, l£n 6« 31% £m,14° 19*, (f 0 Q 24*, 
? Uji 70 12‘, $ 18» 59', 0 HJ) 290 52*. 

* The letter G signifies the good aspects, and B the bad ones. 


astrologer’s pocket COMPANION. 26s 

The first thing is to mark out in the margin the planets 
longitude; in so doing you must draw a fine pencil line 
from S Q 25 of yf, which will be found to be the place of 
next you mark out the place of J^, which is ^ 9° 19‘» 
then the place of 1^, viz:—n 6® SI 4 , and so on with the 
rest. 

After you have marked out the whole of their places, 
you must then shift the pointer to the Moon’s place, viz :— 
yf 0® 24 4 , this, when done, will give the whole of the con¬ 
figuration the Moon markes to the other planets. Here 
the Moon is applying to the conjunction of Ilerschel, and 
will be found to cast her dexter Semiquartile to Mars, her 
dexter Quintile to Mercury, her dexter Square to the Sun, 
her dexter Trine to Venus, and has just separated from a 
sinister Sesquiquadrate of Saturn. 

Now by shifting the pointer to the place of Mars, viz.— 
tit 14° 19‘, you will find that Mars has just passed the 
opposition of Saturn, and casts his dexter Semiquartile to 
the Sun, and his sinister Semiquartile to the Moon and 
Herschel; therefore by shifting die pointer to the place of 
the other planets, as before, you may gain all their aspects 
with little trouble. 


Anecdote on the Truth of Astrology . 

Cat chus, an Astrologer, who went with the Grecians to 
the Siege of Troy : he found out that the fleet was retained 
at the port of Aulis, because Diana was angry with the 
Grecians: he showed them means to appease her, and 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE j OR, 

foretold that Troy would not be taken before the tenth 
year. At his return he passed into Ionia, where he took 
so much to heart at what Mopsus had foretold, which he 

himself could not, that he died of discontent.-Homer 

and Virgil. 


SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 

[Continued from page 250.] 

LEO. 

Quality. —Leo (Si) is the fifth sign of the Zodiac, of 
long ascension, the only house of the Sun, is a hot, dry, 
fiery, choleric, masculine, barren, diurnal, northern, com¬ 
manding, fixed, cstival,brutish, four-footed, broken, change¬ 
able, fortunate, strong, bitter, violent sign, of the fiery 
triplicity ; contains about twenty-seven Stars. 

Description of Person.— Of a large stature, masculine 
body, broad shoulders, austere countenance, dark, yellow, 
flaxen hair, strong, course, the visage oval and ruddy, 
sanguine complexion, a resolute, courageous, spirited, 
aspiring mind, free and generous heart, open, bold, and 
courteous disposition. 

Parts of the Body. —It governs the heart, back, the 
vertibroe and pericranium. 

Deseases. —Are all the passions and affections of the heart, 
as convulsions, trembling, swoonings, violent fevers, qualms, 
plagues, pestilences, small pox, measles, yellow-jaundice, 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. S6.i 

pleurisies, sore eyes, all diseases ensuing from cholor, and 
pains in the back. 

Kingdoms and Cities. —It governs Italy, Bohemia, 
France, Sicily, Rome, Bristol, Cremona, Prague, Syracruse, 
Cratona, Ravena, Philadelphia, &c. 

Places. —It signifies kings palaces, cottages, parks, forts, 
in houses such places where fire is or hath been kept, des¬ 
serts, woods, forrests, rocks both steep and craggy, and all 
places frequented by wild beast. 

Colour. —Red and green. 

VIRGO. 

Quality. —Virgo (tip.) is the sixth sign of the Zodiac, 
of long ascension, the night house and exaltation of Mer¬ 
cury, is a cold, dry, earthy, melancholy, feminine, nocturnal, 
common, barren, human, changeable, estival, unfortunate, 
northern, commanding sign, of the earthy triplicity, and 
consists of about twenty-four Stars. 

Description of Persons. —Of a middling stature, well 
made, but no ways handsome, rather slender, but very 
compact, dark ruddy complexion, round face, dark brown 
hair, small shrill voice, very ingenious, but fickle minded. 
If this sign ascend and Mercury therein, with the Moon 
Cancer, the person so signified, will be an excellent orator. 
This is from the effect of the Moon and Mercury being in 
Sextile , not from their being in their essential dignities , as 
some fools have imagined . 

Parts of the Body. —It governs the bowels, belly, 
spleen, and diaphragm 


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THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE*, OR, 

Diseases. —Of this sign are those produced by worms, 
wind, and obstruction hardness of the spleen, hypochon¬ 
driac, melancholy, cholic, iliac passion, dyseutry, and all 
disorders of the intestines. 

Kingdoms and Cities —It governs Turkey, both in 
Europe and Asia, Greece, Mesapotamia, Crete, Jerusalem, 
Croatia, LowerSilesiu,Toulouse, Paris, Lyons, Heidelburg, 
Padua, Basil, &c. 

Places. —It signifies libraries, studies, warehouses, shops, 
closets where books and other writings are deposited, 
dairies, corn fields, graneries, malt houses, corn or hay 
ricks, storehouses of butter and cheese. &c. 

Colour. —Black mixed with blue. 


LIBRA. 

Quality, &c.—Libra (^) is the seventh sign of the 
Zodiac, of long ascension, the day house of Venus, and the 
exaltation of Saturn, and is aerial, sanguine, hot and moist, 
equinoctial, cardinal, moveable, masculine, diurnal, hu¬ 
mane, fortunate, sourthern obeying sign, of the airy tri- 
plicity, and consists of about eight fixed Stars. 

Description of Persons —Of a tall stature, well 
formed body, round lovely beautiful visage, fine sanguine 
complexion, ruddy in youth, but inclining to pimples when 
advanced in years, light auburn or flaxen hair, blue eyes, 
good temper, good principle, and generally beloved. 

Parts of Man’s Body. —It governs the veins, kidnies, 
and bladder. 

Diseases —Are the stone, gravel, heat, wind, cholic, 


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diseases of the loins, imposthumes, or ulcers in the veins, 
bladder or kidnies j corruption of the blood, weakness in 
the back, &c. 

Kingdoms and Cities— It governs Austria, Alsace, 
Savoy, Portugal, Levonia, India, Ethiopia, Lisbon, Vienna, 
Frankfort, Friburg, Placentia, Antwerp, and Charles¬ 
town. 

Places. —It signifies barns, out-houses, sawpits, or 
cooperages, inner chambers, attic stories, ground near 
windmills, mountain tops, barren, stony, or sandy ground, 
&c. 

Colours. —Are black, dark crimson, or tawny. 
SCORPIO. 

Quality, 6cc. —Scorpio (tt^) is the eighth sign of the 
Zodiac, of long ascension, the night house and joy of Mars, 
and is a watery, cold, phlegmatic, feminine, nocturnal, 
fixed, fruitful, mute, unfortunate, strong southern obeying 
sign, of the watery triplieity, and includes about twelve 
fixed Stars. 

Discription of Persons. —It denotes a middling size, 
robust, strong, broad visage, dark complexion, short body, 
brown curling hair, thick neck and legs, hairy and course, 
active, but very reserved and thoughtful in conversation. 

Parts of Man’s Body. —It governs the geuitials, groin, 
bladder, fundament, &c. 

Diseases. —Are the stone and gravel, strangury, and 
disorders in the urinary passage, ruptures, fistulas, hemorr¬ 
hoids, venereal disease, scurvy, piles, &c. 


$68 THE 8PIRIT OP PARTRIDGE; OR, 

Kingdoms and Cities subject to m are Judea, Mauri- 
tonia, Catlonia, Norway, West Selesia, Upper Bavaria, 
Barbary, Morocco, Valentia, Messina, and Frankfort upon 
Odar. 

Places. —St^rpio signifies sinks, drains, common sewers, 
stinking pools of water, swampy marsh-land, kitchens, 
larders, wash-houses, and all places where vermin and 
reptiles breed, &c. 

Colour. —Brown. 

[To be continued.] 


PARTRIDGE'S OPUS REFORMATUM. 

EXTRACT XII. 

When he came to be protector, he had enemies always 
plotting against him ; but at the same time all nations were 
his friends, either for love or fear; and what is more, it 
was his own prudence, courage, council, and conduct, that 
carried him through and above all these things; and thi* 
is aptly signified by Ptolomy’s own rule and words, which 
are these, Cum Lumina congruunt, erit amicitia adjuncta 
consilio op na & tutissima. Which in this figure and 
nativity takes place, for the Lights are in Trine to each 
other ; the one in conjunction, and the other in Trine and 
reception with Mercury, and all these assisted by the 
beams of Jupiter, who is in Cancer, and in Trine to the 
Mid-hcaven; by which means he is doubly concerned in 


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giving and supporting his honor and friendship, which 
were indeed really inseparable. In a word therefore, this 
valiant and fortunate native had many enemies, and those 
great and considerable in their quality, and this judgable 
by this position ; but he had more friends, and those more 
powerful to support his interest, which is the usual and 
natural effect of so good and fortunate a position, as he 
was blest with. Thus you see the best and most aneient 
Astrologers, had other ways to judge of friends and friend¬ 
ship, enemies and injuries by them, without making use of 
the seventh house, the eleventh and twelfth, with their 
lords and governors, and planets placed therein, which 
method is indeed absurd and ridiculous, if compared with 
Ptolomy’s, which is founded on better principles of philoso¬ 
phy and reason. But more of those fooleries you shall 
have in my Defectio Genituarum, now ready for the press. 

Of the Native's Servants.—r\t is not very material to our 
work in hand to take notice of this part of judgment in 
this nativity, because he was not liable to the fate and 
accidents of private men; for princes seldom know their 
servants (some few excepted,) and by that means are not 
liable to any differences and discord with them, nor are 
their servants admitted to any intimate familiarity w ith 
their masters ; for when they are put into an employment, 
the service expected from them in that employ, is diligence 
and faithfulness in their duty to their master. But we 
may certainly conclude, that all princes have servants of 
both sorts, good and bad; for according as those ministers 
of state are affected, that put in, and employ the inferior 
servants, so must that prince expect to be served or be 


270 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

betrayed; and I could wish we had no examples of this 
kind in England. 

But for tiie readers satisfaction, I will also give the 
judgment of this matter with the rest. Ptolomy doth al¬ 
low the twelfth house, and planets placed therein, to 
signify the native’s servants; but if there are none in that 
house, to take those placed in the sixth; but most chiefly 
to observe how the lord of the twelfth house doth agree, or 
disagree with the chief and most principal parts of the 
figure, and from thence make your judgment of the matter 
in hand. In the nativity now under consideration, vve 
flud Saturn lord of the twelfth house in Libra, his exalta¬ 
tion, but in no aspect, either good or bad, to the Mid¬ 
heaven, Ascendant, Sun, Moon, or Part of Fortune, only 
in parallel with the last of them, which should indeed show 
the native’s servants to be none of the best; but if we con¬ 
sider that Jupiter is in the sixth house, and there in a 
Zodiacal Square, but a Mundane Sextile to Saturn, I should 
judge that his servants were moderate, trusty and just; 
and this the rather, because Venus beholds the cusp of the 
twelfth, with an exact Trine; but this last l speak of my¬ 
self, there being nothing of that, in the rule. Upon the 
whole matter, I do judge, had this native been of the com¬ 
mon qaality, and liable to those accidents that subjects 
must meet with in such aftairs, that is, servants would 
have been just in their duty, but stubborn and head-strong, 
and that the native and they would have agreed moderately 
well; some little differences there would have happened, 
but yet true and trusty in the main. 

Of the Native's Death, and other things that depend 


astrologer’s pocket compaxiov. 271 

thereon as to its Cause and Quality Astrological ,—I am 
now come to the last part of judgment, that is to be given 
on the nativity of any person, Nam ultra mortem nihil; 
but the most confused part of the whole art, as it is now 
understood and practised by all those that pretend to 
understand the language of the Stars, and have just skill 
enough in hard words, to make the rest of mankind believe 
that they arc really what they confidently call themselves, 
that is. Astrologers. And therefore 1 shall be a little the 
larger on this paragraph. First, to show the world their 
mistakes. And secondly, to give a few directions in order 
to set them right; but in this 1 shall be very short, and 
concise, and that for several reasons, which perhaps you 
ihay find elsewhere mentioned in this treatise. For I am 
now handing a nativity, not giving general rules so to do; 
which perhaps I may perform at a more convenient time; 
for 1 really believe I have taken as much pains in that part 
of Astrology that concerns sickness and death, as any 
man ; and for that reason, 1 think I ought to understand 
it as well. However, when time shall serve, 1 will give 
the world what 1 have prepared and ini ended, and let 
them that are more skilful and knowing correct it, for 
which I will give them thanks, if I am convinced that they 
have done it. But I shall divide my discourse on this 
matter into three parts, and bring all under three distinct 
heads. 

First, The cause of death: Secondly, The quality of 
death; I mean of natural death, I not intending here to 
run into a discourse of violent ones, because it would be 
too long, and also not suitable to my present purpose: 


*7* the spirit of partridge; or, 

Thirdly, To compare the cause with the qualily. And 
£ contra; from whence will arise some queries. 

The Cause of Death .—The cause of death is variously 
asserted ; some laying the cause of it on a bad Revolution. 
So one served my friend Mr. R. 13. whom they said lay 
under a bad Revolution four years successive, and killed 
him at last, for which they could never give any other 
reason, and yet had his nativity to consider in the thing. 
Some lay the stress on eclipses of the luminaries* and 
these they tell you do mighty things, especially in death. 
Nay, many of them, to my knowledge, have no other cause 
to allege for the late abdication, but a poor small eclipse 
of the Sun, on the Sun’s radical place, and day of h is birth, 
October 14, 1688 , mane. Which if they please to con¬ 
sider, there was an eclipse of the Moon, April 15, 1660, 
near that place, and that a very great eclipse, and yet did 
him no harm. Also in 1669, October 14, at which time 
the Sun on his radical place was eclipsed in two degrees of 
.Scorpio, the very place of the Dragon’s Tail; and yet I do 
not remember that it did him any harm, nor yet killed him ; 
but anything serves when better reasons are not in their 
power. Sometimes they tell us that great conjunctions 
kill, and yet that shall not happen in divers years after the 
conjunction is over and past. And this 1 have often heard 
alleged |as the cause of death, when such a conjunction 
hath happened on the Mid-heaven, Ascendant, Sun, or 
Moon, &c. of a nativity, in which they could find out no 
other reason more substantial. They likewise say, that 
Comets oftentimes kill when they begin, or expire on the 
chief points and parts of the nativity. But this as w ell as 


astrologer's pocket COMPANION* 273 

»51 the reasons beforemcntioned, are false and groundless, 
and 1 do positively say, cannot kill, nor ever did, per se, at 
any time. IIovv far such things as these are concerned in 
death, I am sensible, and may sometime or other give a 
more particular account thereof} but to say these kill, is 
nothing else but a refuge for ignorance, and let them bring 
me one example where these, or any of tl^em have killed, 
and I will bring them twenty where they have not done 
it, and yet attended with as much violence as the other. 

But notwithstanding they have these back-doors to let 
in excuses and shams, to cheat and delude themselves and 
others} and also to baffle and banter a more serious inquiry 
after truth, which they pretend is their standard} I say, 
these very men do also own, and allow, that violent direc¬ 
tions to the llilegiack points, give sickness, death, and 
other misfortunes. In which l do agree with them, and 
do assert-that these are the only, real, and principal causes 
of death, and that all the others are but subsequents and 
collaterals. Ami these directions are nothing else but 
bodies and rays, carried and conveyed fom one part of 
Heaven to another by the perpetual flux of motion. Ai d 
about these directions there hath been a great, and a long 
contest, one being of this persuasion, and another of that, 
how to contrive their operations, to bring the significator 
and promittor together according to the true design and 
intent of nature } in which point I find they are not yet 
well agreed, neither is it certain when they will; though 
in the angles it is certain there can be no mistake, nor 
indeed any where else, if they would but observe, and 
pursue truth in that tract that nature hrjth made. But in 


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this point we do all agree, that directions of a violent 
nature give death ; and in this I do agree with them, and 
that it was directions that was the cause of this native’s 
(the Protector’s) death ; and yet I am not unsensible, that 
he had in that year an ill Revolution, and an eclipse of the 
of the Sun in May 1658, in exact Square to the Moon, 
in the Radix, who is giver of life. And that the Comet of 
1652, had its begining in or about the tenth degree of 
Gemini, in Square to the Moon’s radical place, and the 
Moon in his last Revolution on that very place in Gemini, 
or near it; with some other things, which Ido noways 
allow to be the cause of his death, but those directions only 
in the preceding table, and they are, as I remember, 
seven in number. 

The Quality of Death .—-This being granted, that direc¬ 
tions are the astrological causes of death; the next thing 
is to inquire into the quality of it, and how to judge this 
according to the method and directions of our authors, 
would puzzle a far stronger brain than I have to employ in 
it; as I believe you will conclude, and readily judge, when 
you have heard the cause opened; and the matter fairly 
stated, according to the usual method and practice now in 
use among those men called Astrologers, or such as pretend 
to it. 

In any nativity, when they come to consider death, they 
tell us, that the native’s death will be by such means, 
ways, or disease, as is agreeable to the lord of the Eighth 
house, his nature, position, and configuration. And to 
colour the foolery of this delusion, they tell us, that the 
lord of the eighth house is the Anareta, or killing planet. 


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Vvhen there is not one in twenty or thirty that die by the 
direction of the giver of life, to the lord of the eighth 
house. If so, then there is nothing more plain than the con¬ 
tradictions in their very rules, laid down to instruct those 
that are more ignorant than themselves, if any such are to 
be found. For is it not a plain piece of nonsense to say, 
that this or that direction is the cause of death; and at 
the same time tell us likewise, that the disease by which 
he must expire, w ill be of the nature of the lord of the 
eighth house. See. when perhaps Venus may be lady of the 
eighth, in Trine to the Moon, or Sextile to-Jupiter; but 
perhaps the direction may be the Sun or Moon, giver of 
life, to the Squares or Oppositions of Saturn and Mars, 
and one of them lord of the Horoscope. And it is im¬ 
possible to reconcile these two rules together, to make 
them either agree, or serve for a cloak to hide their errors, 
for there cannot be two causes to specificate one and the 
same disease, and those causes so antithetically opposite, 
and yet the disease shall partake but of one of them when 
.all is done, and that is the direction or directions, that the 
giver of life is then directed to; and according to the 
nature of the Star or Stars, so shall the distemper or disease 
be. And indeed this is the only rational method, and the 
other altogether improbable ; for it is the occasion of the 
directions touching at that time, that gives the sickness, 
which if so, it is reasonable to think that should give the 
quality of the disease also, and not the lord of the eighth. 


[To be continued.] 


f70 


THE SPIRIT OP PARTRIDGE, &C, 


TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

Philo is informed that our opinion on the Nativity sent hy 
him for judgment, is, that it is not one of the most fortunate, 
as the Moon is just separating from the .Zodiacal Square of 
Uerschel, and the opposition of Saturn, who is in Square to 
Jupiter, which indicates severe losses and drawbacks in life ; 
therefore, we should recommend the Native to be very circum¬ 
spect in his undertakings, or else he will meet with some 
severe reverses in life. However, as the Sun and Mars are not 
afflicted, we judge their favourable directions to the Mid¬ 
heaven, and the Moon will no doubt cause some advancement, 
likewise the 0 to the sji of £ in Mundo converse, also when 
the Moon meets the A of the 0 in Mundo, and the Zodiacal 
Quintile and of $ will also prove very prosperous for 
business. 

R. S. is requested to inform us how he obtained Bonaparte’s 
time of birth, as we do not believe any person knows ins correct 
time in this country. 

Miss R. B.’s request cannot be answered, unless she gives a 
more correct time. 

Mr. D. F — - - s will find a letter for him at our publishers’. 

A. X, S.’s answer was sent as he requested to Mr. G ——s, 
Oxford Street. 

Augustus is informed that the nativity he sent is not of any 
note, therefore would be useless for us to insert it. 


ERRATA y in a few Copies only. 

No. XII. p. 238,1. 4, for direct, read directed. 

• B 13, for directions, read direction, 
p. 2 '4,1. for in the sign, read to the sign 
}). 243, 1. 20,/or breast >eud breasts, 
p. 24G, 1. 14, for in ascendant, read in the ascendant, 
p. 230, last line, for them, read him. 


All communications to be addressed to the Editor, post¬ 
paid, at Messrs. Davis and Dickson, 17 , St. Martiu’s-lei 
(fraud. 


Davis & Dickson, Printers, 
Martin's-le-Grand, London. 





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.. ASTROLOGER'S POCKET COMPANION, 

AND , 

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«78 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; ORj 


OBSERVATIONS 

ON THE ANNEXED FIGURE. 

We have given our readers a Nativity that is vvorfh ob¬ 
servation. We shall first remark, that it was given to us 
for judgment shortly after the birth, the native beingthen 
rather ill, and after some consideration we gave a favour¬ 
able opinion of the figure, and a few days after the child re¬ 
covered; however, having had some leisure time, we were 
induced to investigate the Nativity more minutely : having 
done so, we lost no time in altering onr former opinion 
to one less favourable. We, at the first view of the figure, 
oijly taking into consideration the Zodiacal aspects, thought 
that the child would recover and live, but on examining 
the whole of the Mundane Position we formed a very dif¬ 
ferent opinion. We shall first observe, that the Sun is 
hyieg, and is afflicted by the Mundane semiquartile of 
Mars, who is in Mundane Square to the Moon, and the 
flitter is in exact Mundane Conjunction with Saturn, and 
Zodiacal Square to Mercury, who is nearly in opposition 
to the Ascendant in Mundane sesquiquadrate to Herschel^ 
and the latter is in Mundane semiquartile to the Ascend¬ 
ant; so, on the whole, considering that neither Jupiter nor 
Venus were configurated to the Sun, it was clear to us that 
th^child would not live, which we told the parent. Having 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 


S79 


dined wilh the family on the Christmas-day following, we 
were lasked (the child then being alive and well), did "we 
feel certain our judgment was correct, that the child would 
not live? to which we made the following reply, that the 
Native, for the before-named reasons, would certainly not 
live to a year old, which was true, for it died on the Sd of 
July, 2 h. ,50m A.M. 1822, being then only ten months 
and some few days. This Nativity, as well as some others 
We shall publish, certainly proves that Placidus was cor¬ 
rect in his opinion concerning the Mundane aspects, let 
some late Writers say what they please. However, as no¬ 
thing but examples of this kind will prove the truth of the 
science, we shall not be sparing of them in the pages of 
** The Spirit of Partridge,” which we do not doubt will bfc 
acceptable to our readers. 

Direction for Death . 

0 to the seniiquartile of $ in Mundo, dd. ,05 
C Zodiacal □ of $ , , . . .16 

Ascendant to the seniiquartile of Herscliel in 

Mundo . . . . • . 1 "d 

OBSERVATIONS 

ON FIXED STARS. 

r 

Fixed Stars are very seldom observed in nativities 
Most authors have neglected this part of the science, and 


280 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

those few that have used them at times (when the Dra¬ 
gon’s Head or Tail did not suit their purpose) have made 
much confusion without throwing any light on the 
science. 

The way we recommend is, to consider what aspect the 
planets have to them, and then you may direct them the 
same as the planets. We have alway s found, from prac¬ 
tice, that whenever Saturn, Mars, or Herschel, is in the 
latter degrees of Scorpio or Taurus, that the Star Cor- 
Peonis (whichfcis in the latter degrees of Leo), is extremely 
evil, and when directed to the Midheaveu generally brings 
to the native some serious trouble, and if the nativity 
be unfortunate, a total -downfall; if in a female geniture, 
the native seldom escapes being ruined by some base 
character. If the nativity be fortunate and this Star be 
in Sextile to the Sun, Mars, or Jupiter, it being directed 
to the Mid heaven, generally gives great preferment, ac¬ 
cording to the mative’-s stat ion in life; or if this Star be on 
the Mid-heaven at birth in Sextile or Trine to 4t»e Sun, 
Mars, or Jupiter, it gives great preferment, particularly if 
the native be in the army or navy, or in any public office. 
The same rule holds good with the other fixed Stars of the 
first magnitude near the ecliptic, which ought always be 
carefully attended to, for they greatly assist in giving judg¬ 
ment in nativities. Therefore, to explain this part of the 
science, we shall in a future number give a Table of 
t.K f i .ed Stars. 


281 






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632 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR* 

In the foregoing Table, at the top of the third column, 
note the characters of the aspects, sextile sfc, quartile Or 
trine A and opposition <$>, as placed over the Signs of the 
Zodiac. In the first, observe the words dexter and si¬ 
nister, and in the second column, the sign <y> ■ these are 
intended to show that a planet posited in Aries, would 
send his sextile Aspect dexter to Aquarius, and sinister to 
Gemini, his quartile dexter to Capricorn, his sinister to 
Cancer, his trine dexter to Sagittary, his sinister to Leo, 
and would be in opposition to a planet posited in equal de» 
grees of Libra; and so on through the Table. It must be 
observed that the dexter Aspects are more powerful than 
the sinister. 


METHOD OF ERECTING 

A REVOLUTION Alt FIGURE. 

We shall now proceed, according to our promise to 
Q. R., to explain the method of finding the time the Sun 
eomcs to the precise point he was in at birth, in order to 
gain the time for erecting the true Revolutional Figure. 

Example.—Iii the nativity of Geo. III. (see Frontts* 
' pieee. No. 10), we find that the Sun’s longitude is 13° 21% 
this is sufficiently near for directions, but in the Revolntlonai 
Figure it is necessary to be more exact. On a more mi¬ 
nute calculation we find the precise longitude to have been 
IS® 20' 48", which is the longitude we must employ in 
finding the time of the Sun’s return. The logarithms fro 
shall here use are the common proportional logarithms. 


ASTaOLOGEtt’8 pocket COMPANION, 


its 

•which may be found among other tables in the New 
Translation of Placidus *. The first logarithm to be ob¬ 
tained is that of 24 hours ; the next is the logarithm of the 
Sun’s distance on the noon of the given day from the place 
he was in on the day of birth, which are to he added to¬ 
gether. We must now find the logarithm of tire Sun’s 1110 - 
tiou on the required day for the preceding twenty-Amr 
hours, which must be subtracted from thfc sum of tire 
former logarithms, the remainder will be the logarithm 
of the hour and minute the Sun returns to his original 
place. The operation will then stand as follows: 

Log. of 24 hours - - * ~ 8751 

Log. of Sun’s distance 22’ 40" * s=r 8999 

17750 

Log. of Sun’s diurnal motion 57'21" = 4967 subtract 

-- \u pa. 

12783 =9 $9 

the time for which the figure must be erected by addiugto 
this the Sun’s right ascension (in time) on the 4th of June* 
1819. 

Operation. 

b. m. 

It. A. of the Sun - • * 4 40 

Time of Sun’s return • - 9 29 

R. A. of the Mid-heaven * - 14 9 

which in the table of houses will be found to answer to 
4° SO* of Scorpio; but for the sake of making this example 
the more plain, we have only given it to the even degree. 

* Published by Davis & Dickson, 





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THE 6PIR.IT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 


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ASTROLOGER'S POCKET COMP’AXIOIT. $85 

The use of the former Table. 

Every Planet hath two signs for his houses, except 0 
and d,\vho have but one each. Tj hath Vj> and ; If, 
t and X; ^»nrnt;0, Sli <!»©; $,«£feand$, n 
rrji. One of these houses is called diurnal, noted in the 
second column by the letter D, the other nocturnal 1 
noted by the letter N. In these signs the planets have 
their exaltations, which the third column points out, 
as the 0 in 19 <y>, <7 & ■#, Q in n 3 degrees, are exalted. 

These twelve signs are divided into four triplkities. The 
fourth column tells you which planet or planets, both night , 
and day govern each triplicity; as over against <y> £1 
you fiud 0 if, viz. 0 governeth by day in that triplicity 
and If by night. Over against 8 TT£ yp, you find 9 and 
d ; viz. $ hath dominion by day, and d by night in that 
triplicity. Over against II ^ ZZ you find T? which 
rule as aforesaid* Over against 23 1l| X, you find who, 
according to Ptolomy, ruleth that triplicity both day and 
night. Over against t» in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th 
columns, you find If 6, $ >4, which tells you the first 6 
degrees of < y>, are in the terms of If; from 6 to 14 the 
terms of <J>, &c. Over against op, in the 10th, 11th and 
12th columns, you find $ 10, 0 20, $ 30, viz. the first 10 
degrees of <y>, are the phase of from 10 to 20 the phase 
of 0; from 20 to 30 the phase of $>, &c. In the 13th 
column, over against you find $ detriment, viz. $> 
being in on, is in a sign opposite to her own house, 
and so is said to be in her detriment. In the 14th column* 
over against <y> you find J?, over his head fall; that is, 
when I? is in cf, hj is opposite to £t his exaltation, and? 




TUB SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE*, OR, 


*.) is unfortunate, &c. Thus are you to consider of th®^ 
whole twelve signs. 

A planet, dignified as above, is said to be in his essential 
dignities j accidental dignities are, when planets are casu¬ 
ally in an angle or succedant house, direct, free from com¬ 
bustion. 

A planet in his house or exaltation, being significator.of 
any person, denotes him to be in a happy and prospe¬ 
rous .condition; not wanting for the goods of this life, 
and comparatively as a man in his own castle, secure 
from danger. But a planet debilitated, as being in de¬ 
triment, or fall, and afflicted, denotes the person to be in £ 
very low and mean condition, much dejected, and discon¬ 
solate, &c. 


SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 
[Continued from page fcbS.j 


SAGITTARIUS. 

Q.pAi.iTY.—Sagittarius (£) is the ninth sign of the £<j- 
diac, of long ascension, the day-house of Jupiter, and the 
exaltation of the Dragon’s Tail. It is iu. nature a fiery, ho*, 
dry, masculine, choleric, diurnal, common, double-bodied, 
southern obeying sign of the fiery triplicityp and contaius 
about thirty-one Stars. 

Inscription of Persons —It represents one well-formed, 
rather above the middle size, with handsome, open coum> 
ten&nce, rather long visage, high forehead, the hair grow¬ 
ing off the temples, rather ba|d, of a chesnut colour, (ins 
eyes, strbJig* actiye, bold, intrepid. 


A TABLE 


Tor finding the hourly Motion of the Moon, 
and thereby her true Place at any 

TIME OF THE DAY. 




11 46 

11 

56 

12 

6 

12 

16 

12 

26 

12 

36 



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m. 

d. 

Ml. 

d. 

m. 

d. 

Ml. 

d«. 

Ml. 

d. 

Ml. 


1 

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29 

0 

30 

0 

30 

0 

30 

0 

31 

0 

31 


2 

0 

59 

1 

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1 

0 

1 

1 

1 

2 

1 

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3 

1 

28 

1 

30 

1 

31 

1 

32 

1 

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1 

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4 

1 

58 

1 

59 

2 

1 

2 

3 

2 

4 

2 

6 


5 

2 

27 

2 

29 

2 

31 

2 

34 

2 

35 

2 

57 


6 

2 

57 

2 

59 

3 

1 

3 

4 

3 

6 

3 

09 


7 

3 

26 

3 

29 

3 

32 

3 

35 

3 

38 

3 

40 


8 

3 

55 

3 

59 

4 

2 

4 

6 

4 

9 

4 

12 


9 

4 

25 

4 

28 

4 

32 

4 

36 

4 

40 

4 

45 


10 

4 

54 

4 

58 

5 

3 

5 

7 

5 

11 

5 

15 


11 

5 

24 

5 

28 

5 

33 

5 

37 

5 

42 

5 

46 


12 

5 

53 

5 

58 

6 

3 

6 

8 

6 

13 

6 

18 


13 

6 

22 

6 

28 

6 

33 

6 

39 

6 

44 

6 

49 


14 

6 

52 

6 

58 

7 

3 

7 

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7 

15 

7 

21 


15 

7 

21 

7 

28 

7 

34 

7 

40 

7 

46 

7 

52 


16 

7 

51 

7 

57 

8 

4 

8 

11 

8 

17 

8 

24 


17 

8 

20 

8 

27 

8 

34 

8 

41 

8 

48 

8 

55 


18 

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8 

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9 

4 

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9 

19 

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9 

19 

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10 

5 

10 

13 

10 

22 

10 

30 


21 

10 

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10 

27 

10 

35 

10 

44 

10 

53 

11 

1 


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57 

11 

6 

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15 

11 

24 

11 

33 


23 

11 

17 

11 

26 

11 

36 

11 

45 

11 

55 

12 

4 


24 

11 

46 

11 

56 

12 

6 

12 

16 

12 

26 

12 

56 























A TABLE 


For finding the hourly Motion of the Mood, 
and thereby her true Place at any 


TIME or THE DAY. 


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56 

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37 

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44 8 

51 

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57 

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9 

17 9 

24 

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31 

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49 9 

57 10 

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19 

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30 10 

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54 

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55 11 

3 11 

1 ■ 

12 

11 

20 11 

28 

11 

37 

21 

It 

1J 11 

19 

1 1 

27 11 

36 11 

4511 

54 12 

5 

12 

11 

22 11 

42 11 

51 

:12 

0 12 

10 12 

1642 

28 12 

37 

il2 

46 

23 12 

14 12 

24 12 

33 12 

43 12 

52-43 

2 IS 

12 13 

21 

‘24 12 

- 1 

46 12 

J 

56 13 

(5 13 

1 

16 13 

26'l3 

36 13 

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For finding the hourly Motion of the Mood* 
and thereby her true Place at any 


TIME OF THE DAY. 

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14 

6 

14 

16 

14 

26 

U 

36 

14 

45 

14 

56 

15 

6 

15 

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d. 

m. 

d. 

in. 

(1. 

m 

d. 

m. 

d. 

m. 

d. 

m. 

d. 

l 

d. 

JH 

1 

0 

35 

0 

36 

0 

36 

0 

36 

14 

57 

0 

37 

0 

33 

0 

38 ! 

2 

1 

10 

1 

11 

1 

12 

1 

12 

1 

14 

1 

15 

1 

15 

1 

16; 

3 

1 

46 

1 

47 

1 

48 

1 

s9 

1 

51 

1 

52 

1 

53 

1 

54; 

4 

2 

21 

2 

23 

2 

24 

o 

26 

2 

28 

0 

29 

2 

31 

2 

33 j 

5 

2 

56 

2 

53 

3 

0 

3 

i 

3 

3 

5 

3 

7' 

3 

9 

3 

111 

6 

3 

31 

3 

34 

3 

36 

3 

39 

3 

41 

3 

44 

3 

46 

3 

491 

7 

4 

7 

4 

10 

4 

12 

4 

15 

4 

18 

4 

22 

4 

24 

4 

27 

8 

4 

42 

4 

46 

4 

49 

4 

52 

4 

55 

4 

59 

5 

2 

5 

5 

9 

5 

17 

5 

21 

5 

25 

5 

28 

5 

32 

5 

36 

5 

40 

5 

43 

10 

5 

52 

5 

3.7 

6 

1 

6 

5 

6 

9 

6 

15 

6 

17 

6 

22' 

11 

6 

28 

6* 

32 

6 

37 

6 

41 

6 

46 

6 

51 

6 

55 

7 

0 

12 

7 

3 

7 

8 

7 

16 

7 

18 

7 

23 

7 

28 

7 

33 

7 

38, 

i 

» 

1 7 

38 

7 

44 

7 

49 

7 

54 

8 

0 

8 

5 

8 

11 

8 

1 

16, 


i 3 

13 

8 

19 

8 

25 

8 

31 

8 

37 

8 

43 

8 

48 

8 

W 

15 

1 3 

49 

8 

55 

9 

1 

9 

7 

9 

14 

9 

20 

9 

26 

9 

32, 

16 

! 9 

24 

9 

30 

9 , 

37 

9 

44 

9 

51 

9 

57 

10 

4 

10 

111 

1 

17 

9 

59 

10 

6 

10 

13 

iO 

20 10 

28 

10 

35 

10 

42 

10 

49! 

18 

10 

34 

10 

42 

10 

49 

10 

57 11 

4 

11 

12 

ll 

19 

11 

27 j 

19 

11 

10 

11 

18 

11 

26 

11 

3. 

11 

41 

11 

49 

11 

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12 


20 

11 

45 

11 

58 

12 

2 

12 

1012 

18 

i 2 r 

27 

12 

35 

12 

43 ] 

21 

12 

20 

12 

29 

12 

38 

12 

4612 

55 

13 

4 

13 

13 

13 

21 

22 

12 

55 

13 

5 

13 

14 

13 

2313 

33 

13 

41 

13 

50 

14 

a 

,23 

13 

31 

13 

40 

13 

50 

14 

5914 

9 

14 

18 

14 

28 

14 

38 

24 

14 

6 

14 

16 

14 

26 

14 

36 14 

1 

46 

14 

56 

16 

6 

15 

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The use of this table is to find (by an Ephemeris ) the 
true place of the Moon at any particular time of the day. 
But you must know, that ail astronomers begin the day at 
noon, and count 24 hours to the day; so that beginning 
one day at noon, the same ends the next day at noon; 
therefore 1 in the afleVnoon is the first hour of the day, 
and 10 hours afternoon is the next day 1 in the morning. 
Now in the following Ephemeris, the Moon’s place in the 
third column in every month is exactly calculated to the 
meridian of London ; and, to know her daily motion, yon 
must subtract the place of the Moon one clay, from her 
place the following day, by adding 30 degrees (if need 
require it); for so many degrees hath every sign, and 60 
minutes are in every degree; so you have the daily motion 
-of the Moon: then look for the same in the head, or the 
nearest number you can find, and under it is the motio&of 
the Moon, agreeing to that time. 

Example. —To find the p&ce of the Moon on the 18th 
day of January at 8.at night: her place at noon is £l 
12 deg. 42 min. and the next day in 27 deg. 8 min. of the 
same sign ; therefore her diurnal motion is 14 deg. 26 min. 
then I find the nearest number to this, viz. 14 deg. 26 min. 
in the head of the table, and against 8 hours are 4 deg. 
42 min. which being added to n 12 deg. 42 min. her place 
at noon, the sum will be n 17 deg. 8 min. her place at £ 
©’clock that night. 

We have given these tables of the Moon’s motion, with 
a view to as-sist those persons who study horary astro¬ 
logy, for it often happens that they have not time tx> 
Work a sum; therefore, these easy tables will be found 
acceptable, and, as they are not paged, consequently may 
.betaken out,to use with the Ephemeris, without detriment 
-to the work. 


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Parts of the Body.—I t rules the thighs and os saerutH* 

Diseases. —All disorders of the legs and tjiighs, gout, 
rheumatism, fevers, falls, and broken bones. 

Kiscdoms and Cities— Spain, Hungary, Arabia, Felix* 
Sclaiionia, Moravia, Dalmatia, Liguria, Narbonne, Co¬ 
logne, Avignon, Buda. 

Pieces.—S tables for war-horses, outhouses for large 
cattle, in fields, hills, and the highest places of land or 
ground j in houses, the uppermost rooms, places, adjacent 
to fire. 

Colours.— -Are light green and dive. 

CAPRICORN. 

Quality.—C apricorn (Vf', is the tenth sign of the Zo¬ 
diac, of short ascension, the night-house of Saturn, and the 
exaltation of Mars, is cold, dry, earthy, melancholy, femi¬ 
nine, nocturnal, cardinal, tropical, domestic, moveable, 
.four-footed, changeable, unfortunate, southern, obeying* 
of the earthy triplieity j and contains about twenty-eight 
Stars. 

Parts of Man’s Body.—I t governs the knees and hams- 

Diseases —The gout, sprains, fractures,anddislocations* 
leprosy, itch, scabs, and all diseases of melancholy, hy¬ 
sterics, &c. 

Kingdoms and Citie9 —It governs India, Macedonia 
Tlirace, Greece, Mexico, Saxony, Muscovy, \Vilna,Mevk- 
lenburgh, Brandenburgh, and Oxford. 

Places. —Cow-houses, or where calves are kept, ortoojB 
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ship store-houses, sheep-pens, barren fields, thorny, bushy 
places, dunghills, or places for soil, dark corners near the 
ground, or threshold and low houseB. 

Colours.—A re black, or dark brown. 


AQUARIUS. 

Quality, &c. —Aquarius (457) is the eleventh sign of the 
Zodiac, of short ascension, the day house of Saturn ; it is 
in nature a hot, moist, aerial, sanguine,masculine, diurnal, 
fixed, human, rational, speaking, whole, for unate, sweety 
strong, southern obeying sign, of the airy triplicity, and 
contains about twenty-four Stars. 

Description of Persons —It signifies one about the 
middling stature, well set, robust, strong, healthy, long, 
face, delicate complexion, clear but rather pale, sandy, 
or dark flaxen hair, hazle eyes, and generally of a.good 
disposition. 

Parts of Man’s Body —It governs the legs and 
ancles. 

Diseases. —Are lameness, broken legs, gout, cramp, 
rheumatism, foul blood. See. 

■Kingdoms and Cities. —It governs Arabia Petrea, 
Tartary, Russia, Denmark, Lower Sweden, Westphalia* 
Hamburgh, Bremen, &c. 

Places —It signifies quarries of stone, or mines of 
metals, or any places recently dug up, hilly, uneven ground* 
vineyards, springs of water, eaves of houses. 

Colour.— la sky blue.. 


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PISCES. 

Quality, &c.—Pisces (X) is the twelfth sign of the 
Zodiac, of short ascension, the night bouse of Jupiter and 
exaltation of Venus ; it is by nature a cold, moist, watery, 
phlegmatic, nocturnal, bicorporal, common, effeminate, 
idle, sickly, broken, mute, unfortunate, crooked, southern 
obeying sign, of the watery triplicity, and contains about 
twenty-four Stars. 

Description of Persons. —One of a short stature, pale, 
fleshy, crooked or stooping, thick, round shouldered, with 
brown hair, and the head bent forward, not one of the 
most genteel figures. 

Parts of Man’s Body.— It governs the feet and toes^ 

Diseases. —Are the gout, and all diseases in the feet, 
lameness, ulcerous sores, and cold, moist distempers, &c. 

Kingdoms and Cities. —It rules Portugal, Spain, 
Egypt, Normandy, Galicia, Ratisbon, Calabria, Com- 
postella, &c. 

Places.— It denotes marshy grounds, springs, and where 
water fowls breed, rivers and ponds full of fish, moats, 
water mills, old hermitages, and those places in houses, 
near where the water is, as pumps, cisterns or wells, &c. 

Colour.—I s pure white. 

We have now completed the description of the Signs. 

.We have selected this from the best authors, more from 
a desire that our readers may be acquainted with the 
rules on which predictions are generally made, than from 
any conviction of their truth or their usefulness. 1 he 


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signs are here stated in conformity with the most re¬ 
spected authorities, to govern certain cities and countries j 
but should the student attempt to predict political events 
from these dogmas, he will find himself most wofully de¬ 
ceived, unless he happen (which is not very likely to be 
,the case) to be deeply interested in these concerns, tire 
figure, if erected at the time he feels most deeply impressed 
(not at the entrance of the Sun into the Cardinal signs), 
will then assume the nature of a horary question, and may 
be answered with correctness and precision. The account 
o! signs governing the different parts of the body is use¬ 
less in nativities ; in horary questions it may be admitted, 
toget her with the description of the points of the compass 
which each sign is supposed to point out. 


PARTRIDGE’S OPUS RE FORM ATUM- 
EXTRACT XIII. 

But l will end all in a word or two about this matter, and 
if I can, put it out of doubt*, let Jupiter be lord of the 
eighth, and in it, in Pisces, or where you please, in Trine 
or Sextile to the Sun or Moon, and the giver of life he 
directed to the bodies of Saturn, Venus, and Mercury, in 
Anes, Scorpio, Capricorn, or Aquary; especially near 
any violent fixed stars, or to the body of Saturn or Mara, 
and the squares of the other two; and that native shall 
Cither be poisoned, or intoxicated with poisonous physic it, 
and this in defiance to Jupiter, lord of the eighth, who I 


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am sure gives no such thing. And so I come to the third 
tiring, and that is to compare the cause with the quality 
or effect, which is the disease, See. 

The Comparison of both , with the Queries thence arising. 
—The way to compare these things, is to examine such 
nativities as the chiefest of the professors have published 
to the world, and- to see how they make their rules, 
and the death of the patient agree; if the disease be from 
the Sun or Mars, it is a fever, a hectick, or such like ; if it 
is from Saturn, it is a cold distemper, as coughs, defluxiona, 
agues, &c. if from Jupiter, apoplexies, imposthumes, di¬ 
seases of the lungs, &c. if from Venus, dysenteries, diseases 
of the stomach and liver, fistula’s, and diseases of reple¬ 
tion ; if from Mercury, deliriums, madness, convulsions, 
coughs, and diseases of the breast, with all those infirmi¬ 
ties that rise from an excess of dryness; if from the Moon, 
diarrheas, and other fluxes of the bowels, convulsions, 
obstructions in young women, diseases.of the womb, and 
such like. Then again, they give variety of diseases, ac¬ 
cording to the mixture and complication of their rays, 
which is no very hard thing to examine, if you are but 
willing to take a little pains. And the reason why 1 advise 
^ ou to compare the disease and its quality, with that which 
you call the cause of it; is for you to observe how they do 
agree one with another, and how all of them together do 
agree and correspond, to the rules laid down for that pur¬ 
pose. Doctr. of Nativ. page 142. sect- 1. page 2fiJ. sect 8, 
And to consider when any native or patient is dead, whoso 
nativity is known to be true and certain ; whether had you 
been to have given your judgment thereon before death, 


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you would have predicted that disease of which he died, 
or some one very like it in nature and quality, [fori know 
there are none can be absolutely particular] by the posi¬ 
tion of the lord of the eighth house, having respect to that 
angle itself, the planets in it, and those configurations with 
which the lord of it is affected. I say, a few trials of this 
nature, in a little time will soon shew you, to which side 
troth casteth a favourable aspect; whether to the power 
of those directions at death, or to the power and position 
of the lord of the eighth at birth. To which purpose let 
us make a search and inquiry into some nativities that are 
known and allowed. 

Query 1. Who would have judged by the position of 
the lord of the eighth, that King James I. should have been 
poisoned; for Jitpiter lord of it, was in sextile to the 
Moon, and in square to the Sun and Mercury, which 
should rather have given a cough, distemper of the lungs, 
aud a hectick fever, than an ague and poison. But the 
directions that killed him do naturally give poison, for it 
was the Sun, Hileg, to the body of Mars, square of Venus, 
and body of Saturn. 

Query 2. What artist skilled in that learned doctrine of 
the lord of the eighth, would have judged Charles II. 
should have died by violence, when Mars lord of the 
eighth was in sextile to the Sun, and lord of the ascendant, 
and in no ill ray with any, but the square of the Moon ? 
a^d yet the directions that killed him were violent, and 
might give death by a sort of violence, among which 
that he died by was one kind. 

Query S. Who would have judged that the Earl of 
Essex should have been beheaded, w hen Jupiter lord of 


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tfce eighth was in Libra, and free from all malefick rays ? 
Collec. Geni. p. 45. 

Query 4. The case of Dukeof Hamilton, why he should 
die in that manner, when Jupiter and Mars were no ways 
afflicted, the former being in sextilc to Saturn, and in trine 
to the Sun ; and the latter in no aspect with any, but the 
opposition to Venus ? Collec. Genit. p. 67 . 

Query 6. Why George Duke of Albemarle should die 
of a dropsy, when Mars, lord of the eighth, was in square 
to the Sun, and in sextile to Venus; which cannot be 
allowed to give a dropsy, in my opinion ? Collec. Genit. 
p. TO. 

Query 6. Why Sir Robert Holburn did not die a violent 
death, seeing Mare and the Sun are in conjunction in the 
eighth,.among violent fixed Stars; and Saturn going to the 
square of Jupiter, lord of that house, from cardinal signs ; 
which is indeed a very violent position ? Collec. Genit. 
p. 124. 

Query , 7 . Why Mr. Massianiell© should not expire by 
a natural death, seeing that the Moon* lady of the eighth, 
was no ways afflicted, but going to the trine of Mars, trine 
of Saturn, and trine of the Sun ? Collec. Genit. p. 165. 
But l suppose this is one of Mr. John’s made nativities, 
and therefore ought not to be questioned. 

Query 8. Why Sir Freeh. Holies should die by so vio¬ 
lent a death, as being shot to pieces, when the Moon, lady 
of the eighth, was separating from the Trine of Venus, lady 
of the tenth, and going to the body of Jupiter, lord of the 
Ascendant in Pisces; /or the Moon was not full sixteen 
degrees in Pisces by her latitude; and Jupiter was almost 


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nineteen degrees by his Collect. Genit. p. 159. This is thfe 
gentleman that was 1o live some decades of years (by 
Gad’s prediction), but was killed within six months after 
he had printed it. 

Query 9. In that nativity printed for Oliver Cromwell’s 
Collect. Genit. p. 145. Why Jupiter in Square to Mars 
and Saturn should give an ague and fever, and as they 
say, poison 5 when at the same time, Jupiter is in Sextile 
to the Moon, in Sextilc to the Sun, to Mercury and Venus, 
which positions do not use to give such accidents, but 
rather a consumption, or some other disease of the lungs. 
But besides that, even in this figure here before us, and 
by me now corrected,why should Mercury that governs the 
cusp of the eighth, and is in Sextile to Jupiter, and Trine 
to the Moon; or Venus who governs the rest of that house, 
being in no ill aspect with any of them, but in her own 
house, and free as well from beneficks, as malefick beams, 
give any disease of the nature of that he died of? Whence 
it is plain, that none of these rays, either of Mercury or 
Venus, can be allowed by any rule I have read in that 
* method of judgment, from the lord of the eighth house, to 
give either a fever, ague, or poison, &c. And, indeed, to 
examine it rationally, it will appear a very lame, empty sort 
of a rule, that the lord of a house should give so considera¬ 
ble an accident to man’s life, as the quality of the disease 
of which he must die, and that house but an imaginary 
point or part of heaven, that he is called the lord of; and 
because he is lord of that house, he must kill and destroy * 
nay, and give death by such a kind of disease as is not 
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which if they would but consider, renders their art (by 
their own rules) a very uncertain, falacious inquiry, as 
doth appear by their authors compared with thosequeries 
preeceding. And so I come to give the true cause of his 
death, that in all nativities shall hold good and authentic, 
the rule being well understood, and then well observed. 

Lastly, he that will come to the true knowledge of 
Astrology in this thing of death, he must in the first place 
throw’ by all these shams and fooleries, that are kept in use 
without any approbation of truth, or any other authority 
but that which some call antiquity. And I have been 
somewhat the longer on this matter, to show how idle a 
tiling it is in itself, and yet how much magnified by those 
that pretend to Astrology. Not a nativity done without tlie 
use of this rule; and not one nativity in forty, where the rule 
takes place, unless it is by chance; for till they can prove 
to me, that they have a better foundation for their houses, 
than any l can yet learn, 1 must beg their pardon, for my 
not believing this, and a great many fooleries more in the 
art of nativities. Of which I will give a fuller account 
shortly in my Defect. Gen. There is no other thing can 
share in the cause of death, and the nature and qualifi¬ 
cation of the disease, but the direction or directions that 
are then in force and operation, by cirection to the giver 
oflife. 

[To be ccntinued.] 


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' , TO CORRESPOND ENTS. 

N. F. has not said to what place his Figure was erected, 
when that is done, it will be attended to. 

I*. W. S. :s informed, that we intend puhl shing Partridge’s 
Defectio Geniturarum, after the Opus Kefonnatuni is com¬ 
pleted. 

We must observe to Correspondents in general, that, in send- 
in<_'a Nativity for judgment, it is necessary to mention the year 
(fav,hour, and’minute, the place ol birth, with the time of some 
remarkable accident, such as the death of the father or mother, 
fevers, falls, cuts, 6cc, ; time of preferment, marriage, or re¬ 
markable loss or gain, without some of these, it is impossible to 
correct any nativity.; it should he remembered, theealculation 
of a nativity is a work of much time and trouble, and.wheu this 
is done to no purpose, it becomes doubly vexatious. 

J. P. F.’s is under consideration ; he should mention the 
place at which the native was born, as the latitude must be 
taken into account as well as the longitude. We shall be glad to 
have this m the beg tiling of the week. 

ERRATA, 

No. XIII. p. 260,1. 2, for eliptic, read ecliptic* 

1. 3, for do. read do. 
p. 259,1. 1, for knows, rend know. 

1. 13 for is, lead they are. 

•p. 263, 1. 10, for marks, read makes. 

after Calchus, read was. 
p. 266, 1. 11 jor granenes reaa grai aries. 

}i. 267, 1. 21, tor course, read coar.se. 
p. 274, 1. ±,Jor unsellable, read insensible. 


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OBSERVATIONS 

ON THE ANNEXED FIGURE. 

Viiis is the nativity of the infant daughter of his Royal 
Highness the Duke of Clarence, who it may be remem¬ 
bered died March 4, tS'2J,at the age of three months. The 
cause of so early a dissolution appears to be the numerous 
evil aspects to the Moon, which being placed in the ninth 
house, is indisputably hileg. The Moon is but three mun¬ 
dane degrees from the square of the Sun, who is nearly 
conjoined with Mars, and in mundane sesquiquadratc to 
Saturn. To add to the evil, Saturn is in exact mundane 
and zodiacal semiquartile to the Moon, who has not the 
least assistance from the benefics. This occurrence is 
.within the memory of every one ; the time was taken from 
the public papers, it therefore cannot be, said it was 
altered to agree with any particular direction. The pla- 
netary positions are too remarkable to escape the notice 
of any one versed in this science ; while we can bring in¬ 
stances of this kind of the truth of astrology, we may 
laugh at the folly of those persons who condemn astrology 
as ridiculous, because it may happen to interfere with their 
opinions or their prejudices. 

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Positions of the Planets at the 'Time of Death. 

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OBSERVATIONS 

On the Aspects of the Planets. 

The description of the aspects of the planets with each 
other as generally given, requires some explanation. In 
horary questions, every planet, being lord of some house,-is 
a significator of some person or thing; but in genethliacal 
astrology, the luminaries and angles* only can be consi¬ 
dered as significators. It is of the last importance that 
we observe the position of the planets in Mundo, which if 
not carefully attended to will often cause errors in judg¬ 
ment. For example, if the Sun in a nativity be placed in 
three degrees of Cancer, on the cusp of the ascendant and 
Saturn, in three degrees of Aries on the cusp of the 
eleventh, here the power of the square of Saturn is greatly 
increased by his approximation to the zenith; had he 
been placed in Libra, on the cusp of the fifth, his square, 
though s'ill evil, would not have produced so much misery 
and misfortune to the native. Again, if we place Mercury 
on the cusp of the eleventh, in 23 degrees of Leo, and the 
Moon in the third, in the same number of degrees of Sagit¬ 
tarius, they will be in zodiacal trine, a position highly fa¬ 
vourable to the intellectual powers; but had the situation 
been reversed, the native, though equally fortunate as it 
respects business, would neither possess that dejdh of *re- 


* The tenth and ascendant. 


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Search nor firmness of purpose caused by the configura¬ 
tion. In a horary question of a law-suit, with thirteen 
degrees of Virgo ascending, Mercury on the cusp of the 
t welfth, in twenty degrees of Leo, is here siguificator ofthe^ 
querent and Jupiter lord of the seventh in 20 degrees of 
Scorpio, oil the third, the significators are in square; 
hut the person signified by Mercury, from the position 
in the world, would greatly have the advantage of his 
opponent. 

The Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. 

If Saturn be significator, lie gives the querent inheri¬ 
tance of estates and profit bv means of agi ieulture, the, 
querent's disposition is very moral, lie frequently gains a 
fortune by merchandize, and sometimes by preaching. If 
Jupiter be siguificator, the disposition is not so good, the 
querent seldom meets with'much success in the world, he 
us very niggardly, and generally acquires property by some 
selfish and unusual means, lliough he seldom enjo)s it 
like oilier persons : lie mostly lives hated by e very one,Tor 
his mean and deceitful ways, and dies in obscurity, if 
Mars be in square, and in aspect to Mercury, the querent 
is generally duped of liis property, and dies a miserable 
death. 


The Conjunction of Saturn and Mars. 

If Saturn be significator, the querent is of a rash, tur¬ 
bulent disposition, and mostly very unfortunate, very 
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order, and frequently end his days in a prison. If Mars 
be significator,the disposition is equally bad, but not quite 
so rash, more sly and cowardly; sometimes he gams 
favour from old persons, who assists him with their pro¬ 
perty, which he generally loses in the end, and becomes 
very unfortunate, and more particularly so if the signifka- 
tors arc above the Earth: 

The Conjunction of Saturn and the Sun . 

Signifies losses to the querent by fire or men in power, 
who persecute him, and confine him within the walls of a 
prison for some contempt of the law, and he is seldom 
very healthy, or of long life. If the Sun be signifieator, 
the querent is generally very disagreeable, deceitful, mis 
trustful, and unfortunate, always losing his property by 
some speculation, which in the end often ruins him, par¬ 
ticularly if the querent has any thing to do with the go¬ 
vernment, or persons connected with the state. 

The Conjunction of Saturn and Venus. 

If Saturn be significator, the querent gains considerably 
by the ladies, and is much attached to them, and he is 
greatly addicted to pleasure, very fortunate in any un¬ 
dertaking where females are concerned. If he be a man 
of property, he often wastes a great portion of it by plea¬ 
sure or gaming, !f Venu ( s be significatrix, the querent is 
very artful, sly, unfortunate, destitute of friends, often dis¬ 
appointed by death, and he loses considerably by persons 
older than himself, particularly so if in trade, 

[To be continued.]. 


50 * 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


The Members iu Man's Body, which the Planets signify, 
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The Use of the Table. 

In the decumbilure, or atthe fulling sick of any person, if 
the ascendant, sixth house, or their lords, or the D be 
alHicted in any of the signs before mentioned, look in what 
sign the siguificator is, for in that limb or member of the 
body signified will the grief or infirmity be. 

Example. —If ^ be significator, and in 23, then the 
grief will be in the reins or belly, or both. The same 
observe of the rest of the planets. 

if T? be lord of the sixth, the disease willjbe long, or at 
least longer than if or 0 were lord of the sixth ; 

except T? be in < 3 , or SI in the 7 th, for then he will soon 
recover. 

T? Lord of the ascendant, and in the sixth, the disease 
came of cold, or much grief, See. 

Lord of the ascendant in the sixth, the disease came 
by mirth, or coid upon heat, blood, or wind. 

£ so posited, the disease came by great anger and fret¬ 
ting, or by some unhappy blow. 

9 posited as aforesaid, it came by rioting, love, or 
lechery. 

5 so posited, the disease came by fear, over much study, 
or thin melancholy. 

The D so posited, by taking cold through over much , 
moisture, or travelling. 


304 


THE EPlRlT OF PARTRIDGE : OB. 




A TABLE 


To reduce the motion of the Planets to any Hour of the 
Day or Night. 


iJumial 

Motion 

One Hours 
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ASTROLDGKU’9 POCKET COMPANION. $05 

\ 

To find the true place of each Planet at any hour when 
we have occasion to erect a figure, it only requires to turn 
to the Ephemeris for the Planets places at noon; which 
being found, note how many degrees or minutes they move 
in the Zodiac, by twelve o’clock the next day, or from 
noon the proceeding day, and then by the help of the 
above table, it will be seen how many degrees, minutes, 
or seconds they move in an hour. For example, suppose 
a planet moves 1 degree in 24 hours, how far does it move 
in 1 hour ? At the top of the first column is the figure 1 , 
and in the same line of the second column, is 2 minutes 
and 30 seconds; which shews, that if a planet be 24 hours 
in moving 1 degree, it then moves 2 minutes and SO 
seconds in an hour. Or suppose a piauet only moves 2 
minutes in 24 hours, look into the first column of the table 
for the figure 2 , opposite, in the second column, stands 5 
seconds, which shews, that if a planet moves 2 minutes in 
24 hours, it then only moves 5 seconds in an hour. Again, 
if a planet’s diurnal motion be 11 rninutes, what is its 
hourly motion ? Look into the first column for 11 , and 
opposite is 27, SO ; which indicates, that if a planet moves 
11 minutes in 24 hours, it moves 27 seconds and 30 thirds, 
in an hour. The same rules are to be observed in the 
motions of all the planets; but let it be carefully remem? 
hered, that if the diurnal motion of any planet, be in 
degrees, then you must enter the first column of the table 
under the denomination of degrees, and the second column 
with minutes and seconds; but if the diurnal motion of the 
planet be only in minutes, then you must begin to reckon; 



S06 the spirit of partridge; or, 

in the first column only with minutes, and in the second 
column with secouds and thirds. This is indicated by the 
initial letters placed over each column, which signify 
degrees or minutes iu the first column; and in the second,, 
degrees and minutes, minutes and seconds, secouds and 
thirds. Then suppose a planet moves 1 degree and 11 
minutes in 24 hours, how far does it move in an hour ? 
Refer to the table and say, 

1 Degree in 24 hours is 2 min. 30 sec. 0 thirds per hour. 

11 minutes in 24 hours is 0 min. 27 sec. 30 thirds. 


Answer 2 57 SO 

And thus any quantity of a planet’s diurnal motion, may 
be reduced to time in the same manner. 


PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 
EXTRACT XIV. 

I do acknowledge, that Revolutions, Secondary Direc¬ 
tions, with Transits, Returns, Eclipses, &c. may increase 
the arguments of the certainty of death, but all of them 
together cannot give death, or specificate the disease that 
leads to it,, but the directions ouly : as I could show you in 
some of those nativities mentioned in the former queries, 
where the diseases did exactly correspond to the directions 
that gave them, Sensu Astroloyico. And to this purpose,, 



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ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPAXIOV. 307 

there may sometimes be three or four planets concerned in 
the matter, sometimes but one, but rarely less than two 
serve to give the disease and death. To this purpose, in 
the nativity of Charles II it was the Moon that gave the 
disease, but it was Mars that killed him, although there 
were divers directions j I am sure six or seven in force and 
operation when he died, and helped to complete the work 
of mortality. Likewise in this case of the protector Crom¬ 
well, it was not Mercury or Venus, lord or lady of the 
eighth house, that gave him either an ague, fever, or poison, 
no nor Saturn, lord of the Ascendant in the eighth, in op. 
position to M&rs; but it was the directions of Saturn, and 
the Moon herself, that gave his disease, but that of Mars 
killed him, And that I do assert to be the true cause of 
his death, and shall have a proportional effect in all other 
nativities, where the Moon is Hileg, and in that part of 
Heaven; that is, it shall give death, but perhaps it may 
not be by the same disease, but it shall be of the same 
nature, violent and quick, as indeed are most of those 
directions where Mars and the Moon are concerned, but 
especially where they sway and govern. And that you 
may be the more satisfied, do but examine the nature of 
flie promittors in directions, and compare them with the 
nature and circumstances of his disease by which he ex¬ 
pired. Both which being throughly considered, in the 
next place consult the text of Ptoloniy in his fourth book, 
chap. 10, De genere Mortis , and you will (I believe) be 
soon satisfied about the truth of that matter. And so I will 
conclude my discourse on the nativity of this great general; 


508 


7HE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

state-man, and politician; whom Mr. Dryden in Iris 
Fanegyrick on his death, commends for his great labour, 
toil, and industry, by endeavouring to the utmost to shorten 
the kingdoms miseries, and put an end to the war, which 
other men made their trade and profit, and made it their 
business rdao to protract it. Ilis words are these, 

Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the wer; 

First sought t’enflame the parties, then to poise; 

The quarrellov’d, but did the cause abhor, 

And did not strike to hurt, but make a noise. 

War, our consumption, was their gainful trade; 

We inward bled, while they prolong’d our pain. 

He fought to end our fighting, and essay’d 

To stanch the blood by breathing of a vein. 


[Continued from page 186, line 23.] 

7his being a Supplementary Observation , we thought it 
better to insert it at the. end of the first part , instead of the 
middle of the nativity. 

to a better discovery ? for I am well assured, that the best 
method of directions yet discovered, may admit of correc¬ 
tion and emendation, if the professors of this study would 
be pleased to take pains and labour in it; but one part of 
them are ignorant, and the other idle, and so the work lies 
by: but for the common way, as it is a very easy one, so 
it is a very false one ; and he that pretends to Astrology, 
and hath not found himself cheated by his own rules in. 




ASTROLOGERS POCKET 'COMPANION. SO^ 

directions & c . SO me hundreds of times, I think he hath 
Liken but very little pains in those operations j or else by 
the help of a bad memory he hath forgot them, but it 
serves the turn; nnd so long as none knows better, every 
« ue is contented, and, I suppose, most of them arc so far 
from mending of it. that were there a better produced, they 
arc so fond of their errors, that they will not part with 
their old one, and, therefore, let them go on and see what 
they can make of it; and whether this 1 have here dor*a 
pi easel h cr not, 1 care not; under which consideration, 
I come now (as 1 promised you) to give half a score direc¬ 
tions to spend your judgment on, and to consider what 
prospect they have to truth : yet l do not expect every 
one to be capable of judging whether it he true or false, 
and therefore would not have every little Capricio think 
that I call for his opinion, or would have him busily con¬ 
cerned in giving liis judgment about the matter, before he 
apprehends it: And yet without setting a figure, lean tell 
you 1 must expect such usage, and that from such people 
too, who I can assure you (some of them) are no small 
foo's. 


Nomina Directioi.um. 


i Arcus iJSuiiier 
IT ireeti Armor. 

Amu 

Dorn. 

SOL ad $ in Zodiaco 


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3:o THE SPIRIT of partridge; or* 

These things being thus performed, and done, let us 
now examine the whole work, and see how the directions 
do agree with his accidents, from the year 1640, to his 
death; for we have none particular and significant before 
he was 40, or 41 years of age, the former part of his life 
being to me unknown; neither is there any solid account 
of any of note by those lhat have written his life, and 
therefore I shall make use only of those accidents that are 
certainly true, and generally known to all mankind, and 
they arc those that do generally relate to the public. 

Anno 1G40.—lie was by his country chosen a member 
in that Parliament that King C. I. called to sit in Novem¬ 
ber, and this was the first step he made in the public ; 
but I cannot own this to be so great a preferment as some 
do, because it is attended with labour, trouble, and charge ; 
yet I must acknowledge that this laid the ground-work of 
his future rise and grandeur: He had then the Moon 
directed to the opposition of Venus in Zodiaeo; Moon ad 
Tritium $ in Mundo dd. and the Mid-heaven ad A $ and 
CT?, and in his Revolution for that year Jupiter was in 
exact Sextile to his Radical Mid-heaven ; thus you see he 
had both good and bad directions in this year, and there¬ 
fore I do not doubt but he had some struggling and contest 
in his election, as well as in Ins other affairs. 

Anno 1641.—Like a true Englishman he raised a troop 
of horse at Ins own charge to assist the Parliament, and 
defend his country against Popery, which was then coming 
in like a flood : he had then the 0 ad Sesquiquadrat of 9 
dd. and to the A $ dd. the Sun to the square of the Moon, 
and the0 ad Sesquiquadrat of the Sun, and with these he 
had also an unlucky Revolution. 


311 


astrolocer’s pocket companion. 

Anno 1642.—!le had a commission for a regiment of 
horse, which regiment he raised in his own country (f 
freeholders, and freeholder’s sous, who did really go out in 
point of conscience to serve their country in that time cf 
danger: he had now the 0 ad Cor SI, and a very good 
It evolution to assist him. 

Anno 1643.—He was very active In the north, where-he 
opposed the Earl of Newcastle, and 10 that purpose joined 
with the Lord Willoughby, and did the parliament' and 
w bole-nation gallant service. In this summer he also took 
Stamford from the king’s forces; and this was the first 
year he was taken notice of in public, and esteemed by 
the parliament, because they found him faithful; he had 
now the Moon ad A % in mundo dd. Moon ad * 1? in 
mundo dd. and Moon also ad paralleluni $ in mundo 
Motu Raplo; with these he had also a most admirable 
Revolution, for the Moon was on his Radical Mid-heaven 
in 'Trine to Venus, and both Mars and VenOs in Trine to 
Itis Mid-heaven, with other advantageous positions. I re¬ 
member Honest John exclaims against him in this year 
for his whining and dissimulation in religion, which 1 
confess, if true, was a very ill thing; but prithee John tell 
me one thing, was this hypocrisy at White-hall, in the 
year 1643, greater than that at Breda in 16.59-dO, when 
none but the good men must beg a blessing on the good 
creatures? &c. And when one of those good parsons 
staked a certain gentleman how they spent the Sabbath- 
day ; why, says he, we spend the morning in reading, and 
private devotion ; but in the afternoon they always met 
together, and every man took a portion or part of Scrip-.' 



S12 THE FPIIUT OF PARTRIDGE; OP., 

ture, and spoke from that; and when they had all done, 
then his majesty took up every man's notions delivered, 
spoke to them distinctly, giving his own opinion of the 
whole matter; and after some exhortations to a good life, 
he himself concluded the day in prayer; which made 
these good men say, that,they had a king in covenant with 
Cod. 1 think this enough without mentioning anything 
of the Scotch Covenant, to inform honest J. G. that he 
might have forbore that reflection on Cromwell; for you 
see it is an easy matter to give him a Howland for his 
Oliver. 

Anno 1614.—lie differed with the Earl of Manchester’ 
or.e of the parliament generals, about the conduct of a 
battle, 1 think that of Marston-Moor, about which they 
accused each other; but Cromwell came oil victor, and 
still stood fair with the parliament, making his own case 
good. He had now the Sun ad Semiquadrat of $ in 
in undo dd. the Sun to his own Sextile in mundo dd and 
the Moon to the Cor nt with latitude. In his Revolution 
he had the Sun in conjunction w.th Jupiter, the Moon in 
conjunction with Saturn, and Mars iu Trine to his Radical 
Mid-heaven. 

Amio 1645.—Cromwell was made lieutenant-general to 
Sir Thomas Fairfax, and did the parliament and nation 
admirable service in the west of England,, in Oxfordshire, 
and at Naseby : lie had now the Suit nd pnrallelum £ in 
mundo Motu Rapto, the 0 ad par Motu Rapto, and the 
Sun ad ifc ^ in mundo dd. 

Anno 16-47-—Was a year of trouble and much labour to 
him about the differences of the army; his enemies up- 


/ 


ASfROLOfcER’s POCKET COtttMXtOSf, JIJ 

Reared openly against him, and endeavour to out him by 
divers aspersions ; but at last lie got an impeachment 
against them in Parliament, and with much struggling he 
at hist grot clear with honour and reputation, lie had now 
the Moon ad g £ inZodinco S. L. the M. C. ad g J : , and 
the ascendant to the square of Jupiter; and jn the second 
table he had tlie Sun and square of Mars, and parallel of 
Jupiter, which are indeed all of them very apt and proper 
directions for such troubles and vexations as he then under* 
went. The revolution for that year was but indifferent* 
more of bad than good in it; for the Sun, Moon and Sa¬ 
turn was in conjunction. 

Anno U518.—Was a year of much labour and toil to him : 
for then was he employed to reduce the Welsh rebels, 
which lie did effectually ; after that he went against Duke 
Hamilton and the Scots, then in Lancashire, where he 
beat and took the duke prisoner; and toward the end of 
the year he was chosen by the Parliament to go general 
for Ireland; he had now the pirt of Fortune to the dt of 

; in his revolution for that Year he had his Moon in 
Sextile to his radical mid-heaven, and Saturn in opposition 
to it, $ on the radical place of Mars, and in trine to his 
mid-heaven, which I judge gave his arms success. 

Anno 1649.—die went general for Ireland to rescue tint 
poor kingdom out of the hands of the papists, who had so 
barbarously murdered 200,000 of the protestant English 
before m the year 16-U>, and on July the loth he set for¬ 
ward on his journey, which God was pleased to prosper 
with success, and that gloriously too, as you may see by 
the history of that war; and especially his first under- 


f 


$14 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGF; Olt» 

taking, which was at Drogedah, w here he stormed that 
strong garrison, and put them to the sword ; and by that 
means frighted the whole country, and made other towns 
easier to be taken. But during his continuance in this 
kingdom, they say he had the flux, yet by the blessing of 
God he did very well: he had now his mid-heaven ad A D ; 
the Moon ad ^ $ in Zodiaco C 1- two very great di¬ 
rections, and fit for such an undertaking : his revolution 
was but indifferent, but what Was in it, w’as good : his 
Moon was in his radica' horoscope in trine to the Sun, and 
and in to $ on the radical place of his g. 

Anno 1650. —He was made Lord General of all the Forces 
in the Commonwealth of England, and was then sent into 
Scotland to reduce them to obedience. And on July the 
22 d he entered that kingdom with a powerful army; and 
on September the 3d following, he chastised the Scots ih 
that memorable and famous battle of Dunbar, where he 
slew SOOO and took 10,000 prisoners, and with them lieu¬ 
tenant-general Lornsden, adjutant-general Bickertou, three 
colonels, eleven lieutenant-colonels, nine majors, forty seven 
captains, seven captain-lieutenants,, twelve cornets, seventy 
eight ensigns, thirty guns, fifteen thousand arms, and 
two-hundred colours: lie had now the Moon ad * T? 
Zodiaco C. L. the (J) ad Corpus Lunae, and the Ascendant 
to the body of the Suu with the directions of the last year, 
■which are not yet over. In his Revolution for that year, 
there is not anything remarkable; all that is, we find the 
Sun in conjunction with $ and Mars. 

Anno 1651.—'The valiant Cromwell beat the Scots at 
Worcester, where he took Duke Hamilton and twelve 


astrologer’s pocket compaxiox. 


315 


earls lords, and knights, besides, three major-generals* 
rmd four other generals, twelve colour Is, sixteen lieutenant 
colonels, twenty-one majors, a hundred and ten captains, a 
hundred and thirty-six lieutenants, seventy-six cornets, 
twenty-one ensigns, ninety quartermasters; nine parsons, 
nine chvrurgeons, thirty of the king's domestic servants, 
eight thousand prisoners, two thousand slain, and a hun¬ 
dred and fifty colours taken, with all their baggage, 
mmmuui ion and artillery, together with the plunder of the 
town. lie had now the Sun to <he square of $ motu con- 
vcrso ; 0 ad sesquiquadratum <J> in mundo dd. the ascen¬ 
dant to the sextile of Mercury? and the Moon to the Cor. 

S. L. In the Revolution there is little or nothing con¬ 
siderable. 

Anno 1652 —We Have but little account of his public ac¬ 
tions and affairs in this year; neither have we any direc¬ 
tion, except in the second Table, the Sun ad * D, but a 
very good revolution, the Sun in trine to Jupiter, the Moon 
in trine to the Mid-heaven, and also in square to $>, in * g 
* $ and A *° %- 

Anno 1653.—In the beginning of the year he dissolved 
the parliament, and .all the year afterward he was busy 
about the affairs of the nalion, .and in December he was 
made Protector. He had now the Moon ad A II in mundo 
dd. Sun ad term $ the Moon to her own square in the 
Zod. C. L. and in the second Table the Sun to the body 
of Jupiter; his revolution for that year was but indif¬ 
ferent. 


[To be continued.] 


t 


^he spirit o? PAUfamer, &<*. 

NOT ICR. 

In consequence of the difficulty of making the calculations 
fur the Astronomical Tables in the short space of a wtyk, wiih 
the correctness so essentially necessary, we beg leave to in¬ 
form cur readers, that, fur the present, at least, *' The Spirit of 
Partridge” will appear once a Fortnight after No. lb, instead ot 
Weekly as Imure. 


TO CO IIR E SPO SI) E S Ts. 

We return our sincere thanks to our numerous Correspon¬ 
dents for thwir communications, and shall avail ourselves 0/ the 
first opportunity of inserting the mast select of them; at the 
same time, we regret having been compelled to return a num¬ 
ber of letters, on account of the postage being unpaid. Surely 
the ex pence of a single fetter cannot bean object to an indi¬ 
vidual; but to a publisher, who is continually troubled with 
frivolous matters, and such us are more frequently unsuitable 
to their purpose than otherwise, their number in the course of 
a mouth, would amount to a considerable sum. 

Miss G- will find great assistance by having Wilson’s 

Astrological Dictionary. 

N. F.’s is received, hut we are sorry to say, it will not be in 
oor power to attend to it till the beaming of the new year, as 
the-figure requires some regularity. 

J. P. F.’s has been received, and we assure h ; m that he will 
often find Mr. K.’s predictions to fail, owing to the cau?e we 
have fully explained in our article on Transits. 

A. B. of Duke Street, Manchester Square, is received, and 
will be attended to. 

The Horary Figure without name or initials, is also received 
and will be noticed in the next. 

M. de Bland’s is under consideration. 

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Christmas*. 


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THE 

S?IRIT or ?AUTEIBfiE; 

OR, THE 

ASTROLOGER'S POCKET COMPANION > 

AND 

GENERAL MAGAZINE. 


No. XVI. Saturday , January 1 , 1825. [Puice -id. 


A HORARY QUESTION. 




















SIS THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

i ■ %*. '■ ' r* 


TO THE EDITOR OF “ THE SPIRIT OF 
PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

The inclosed horary figure relates to a matter 
in which I have very much at stake, if you will favour me 
with your judgment, you will mu€h oblige an admirer of 
y our W ork, and 

\ 

Monday Morning, A Young Astrologer. 

December 20 th, 1824. 

t # 

\ 0 ' 

- 0 * 0 - 

JUDGMENT 

ON THE ANNEXED FIGURE. 

The ascendant and its lord, with the Moon, are signifi- 
e a tors of the querent; and the seventh and its lord, are 
signifieators of tlie adversary. Here we find the Moon in 
sextile to Mercury and Herschel, and separating from a 
square of Mars (lord of the tenth and disposer of the Moon), 
applying to a partile square of Jupiter (lord of the ninth 
and disposer of the Sun, lord of the ascendant). The Sun, 
lord of the ascendant, is posited in tifO fifth, separating 
from a trine of Jupiter (lord of the ninth), who is retrograde 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 319 

in the ascendant, in opposition to Mars (lord of the tenth 
and disposer of the Moon) all of which are exceedingly un¬ 
favourable towards the querent gaining the suit. Se¬ 
condly, we observe that Saturn, lord of the seventh, above 
the Earth, retrograde in his own dignities, in reception 
with Mercury, and disposing of Mercury, Herschel, Venus, 
and Mars; and Saturn in sextile to Jupiter and in trine 
to Mars, is by no means favourable to the querent; 
therefore, on the whole we should recommend the querent 
to defer this intended action, as we feel certain he would 
lose money by the suit. 

Further Remarks on the Figure . 

Mars, lord of the tenth (significator of the judge and 
disposer of the Moon), in opposition to the ascendant and 
in trine to Saturn (his disposer) lord of the seventh, is, 
without doubt, a most favourable symbol that the quesited 
would gain the suit. Also 1? in ^ to "24, and in ^ to 
£, lords of the quesited’s 11th and 4th, signifies the 


EFFECTS OF ASPECTS. 

[Continued from Page 301.] 

The Conjunction of Saturn and Mercury, 

Ip Saturn be significator, makes the querent subtle and 
crafty, fond of researches into antiquity, one of consider- 


320 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 


able learning, and much gravity, though not always of Hie 
most agreeable manners. If Mercury be significator, he 
is dull, suspicious, mean, cowardly, calculating anti co¬ 
vetous ; should he turn his attention to literature, he may 
gain some knowledge, although with great labour, and 
should he be an author, his writings may bring him into 
some disgrace. 

The Con junction of Saturn with the Moon. 

If Saturn be significator, makes the person restless, un¬ 
settled in his purposes, and often changing his residence j 
not very fortunate, though he may sometimes benefit by 
the populace and the lower order of women If the Moon 
be significator, he is poor, miserable, and dejected, of un¬ 
pleasant manners and sullen disposition, extremely unfor¬ 
tunate, and though possessing scarcely any property, he is 
uncommonly covetous •, with much suspicions caution, he 
trequently commits the most unaccountable errors in 
affairs of the greatest importance, as, through excess of 
prudence, he is. very likely to doubt and deliberate in the 
moment for action. 

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars , 

The latter being significator, the querent is bold, proud, 
and ambitious, fond of martial enterprises and exploits, a 
good soldier or surgeon, though he may lose much by 
strife and contention, and sometimes receive wounds in 
quarrels. If Jupiter be significator, he is good, pious, and 
just j lie is eminently successful in the law or the church, 
and often makes a fortuue by these means. 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 32 1 

The Conjunction of Jupiter and the Sun, 

If Jupiter be significator, renders the querent weak, 
credulous, and servile; he incurs the displeasure of men 
in power, by-whom he is much oppressed, and often 
ruined; he has bad health, and is generally a vain loqua¬ 
cious character, indulging in fanciful speculations about 
religion and other matters, for which he is totally unqua¬ 
lified. If Jupiter be significator, his power is so much 
destroyed by the power of the Sun, that he has but very 
little effect, though some say the person will be very re¬ 
ligious. 

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venuf, 

If Jupiter be significator, promises the greatest happi¬ 
ness ; the querent is highly favoured by the female sex, 
by whose means he gains great advancement; he is rich, 
prosperous, and fortunate, very healthy, and greatly ad« 
mired and respected. If Venus be significator, it denotes 
great beauty of person, riches, honours, ecclesiastical pre¬ 
ferment; the person so represented is truly virtuous, 
pious, kind, and beneficent to all, with the greatest good¬ 
ness of heart, and a disposition that will command nniver- 
"*al esteem and love. 

The Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury. 

If Jupiter be significator, makes a man of great learn¬ 
ing, a good lawyer or divine, of excellent abilities and 
much information. If Mercury be significator, he is mild, 
humane, religious, fond of literature, possessing an elegant 
mind and a gentle engaging disposition; he is raised to 


» 


' ^ * 

S22 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J 08, 

eminence, and, protected by powerful patrons, be ac¬ 
cumulates great riches, and is in general extremely 
fortunate. 

The Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter. 

If the latter be significator, makes the person so repre¬ 
sented restless and changeable, though seldom sufficiently 
settled to accumulate much wealth ; he is on the whole 
very fortunate, he often gains considerably by marriage, 
and is a general favourite with the fair sex ; he is a great 
traveller, and is eminently successful in maritime affairs. 
If the Moon be significator, he is fortunate in ecclesiastical 
affairs ; ho obtains great wealth, though die is liable to lose 
some of this by canting hypocritical persons, who impose 
upon the natural kindness and generosity of his disposition ; 
he has, however, too much good fortune to be injured by 
these persona to any extent. 

The Conjunction of Mars with the Sun, 

If the Sun be significator, makes the querent brave, but 
headstrong and violent $ he will perhaps attain some con¬ 
siderable rank in the army or navy, but he will be fre¬ 
quently wounded, and most probably die in battle, or be 
killed by some accident, or he may fall a victim to some 
contagious fever. When Mars is significator, he is in 
danger from fire, lightning, or infectious fevers; it has 
been said in this case, and perhaps with great truth, “ he 
has the favour of kings and princes, and it may be their 
frowns too, to his utter undoing; he may rise hastily, but 
perhaps to a precipice.” 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 323 

' s / 

The Conjunction of Mars and Venus, 

If Mars be significator, makes the querent kind and 
gentle on the whole, though sometimes rather hasty; he 
is moderately fortunate, extremely fond of women, and 
not always very particular as to their respectability. If 
Venus be significator, he is wicked and debauched, 
a companion of prostitutes, from whom he generally re¬ 
ceives great injury; a drunkard, generally brawling m 
taverns and alehouses ; though he may sometimes meet with 
good fortune, he Will quickly dissipate whatever property 
he may posset* in the company of the most worthless of 
mankind. 

The Conjunction of Mars with Mercury, 

If Mars be significator, represents the querent as pos¬ 
sessed of comiderable ability, a skilful mechanic or a good 
mathematician, one of an acute, sarcastic wit; if in the 
army or navy, for which he is well qualified, lie obtains 
great reputation for his bravery, and is distinguished still 
more for the policy of his measures ; he is never very scru¬ 
pulous as to the means he employs, and will pay but little 
respect to the possessions or persons of others, when lye 
can gain any advantage by sacrificing them to his own 
interest. If Mercury be significator, he makes a cheat or 
swindler, a thief, robber, a treacherous miscreant, a fre¬ 
quenter of gaming-houses, rash, furious, and blood¬ 
thirsty. 


$24 


\ 

THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 


The Conjunction of Mars and the Moon , 

If Mars be significator, makes one of an unsettled life 
and temper, and a favourite of females ; he is frequently a 
wandering adventurer, more remarkable for the variety of 
his fortune than his success or his abilities. If the Moon 
be significator, he is a bold, enterprising character, fre¬ 
quently in great danger of a violent death, a good surgeon 
or soldier, though seldom noted for much humanity; if a 
woman, she is likely to be seduced. 

The Conjunction of the Sun and Venu$ t 

If the Sun be significator, denotes one of soft and effemi¬ 
nate manners, a pleasing address, a great admirer of the 
ladies; he is too much given to extravagance and dissipa¬ 
tion. If Venus be significator, he is of short life, unfortu¬ 
nate, and oppressed, too sickly to make much exertion, 
very proud and extravagant. 


[To be continued.] 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 323 

A TABLE 


Showing the Moon's distance from the Sun. 


1 1 

2 

3 

i * 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

ii 

nr 

b 

n 

23 

1 a 

m 


m 

/ 

yp 

- 

X 

b 

n 

23 

a 

! "fi 

jy. 

m 

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yp 

AOr 

X 

nr 

n 

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a 

m 

1 ^ 

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yp 


X 

nr 

b 

23' 

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-n. 

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yp 

w 

IT 

nr 

b 

n 

SI 


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1 * 

yp 


X 

nr 

b 

n 

23 


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m 


1 w 


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nr 

b 

n 

23 

si 

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nt 


yp 

j 

X. 

nr 

b 

n 

! 23 

IT 

n 

m 

t 

y? 

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nr 

b 

n 

23 


m 

A 

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X 

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b 

n 

23 

IT 

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mn 

X 

nr 

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n 

23 

a 

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A 

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nr 

b 

n 

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m 

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nr 

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— 


Explanation to the Table ► 

As all astronomical calculations are made by counting, 
the number of signs, &c. we thought the above Table 
would be acceptable to a young beginner. Example,, 
suppose 0 to be 20 degrees in n, and the <£ in ft 20 de¬ 
grees. Here the d is two signs distance from the ©,. 
had the d been 27 degrees in she would have been 
7 signs and 7 degrees distance from the 0. This Table 

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32§ THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE } OR, 

will be found useful to those who use the 0 in horary 
questions ; for, so far as the d is distant from the 0, so far 
is the 0 from the ascendant; therefore, if the ascendant 
were 20 degrees, the C 7 signs 7 degrees distance from 
the 0, as before mentioned, the 0 would, according to the 
common way of taking it, fall in n 7 degrees. 


FULFILMENT OF A PREDICTION 
Relative to the Restoration of the Bourbon Family. 

In the Astrologer’s Magazine for February 179S, the 
month succeeding that in which Louis the Sixteenth of 
France met his fate on the scaffold, are the following ob¬ 
servations, which may serve as a convincing proof of the 
verity of astrology. 

Speaking of the figure erected for the time of that un¬ 
fortunate monarch’s decapitation, the writer says, ** in this 
scheme we find the cusp of the fifth house in the radix 
culminating; the lord of the fifth radically strong in his 
own domal dignities, and here lord of the tenth, ami po¬ 
sited in the ascendant, and in the strongest of all recep¬ 
tions with Mars, lord thereof, from all of which it is suf¬ 
ficiently clear to me, That Royalty is still to remain with 
the house of Bourbon , who shall once more ascend the 
throne of France. But as the lord of the tenth is weak, 
and disposed of by Mars in the 12th, it will be a limited 
monarchy ; and as Mercury, lord of the third, is posited in 
the tentli, I judge the King's brother will be Regent . 

“ W. E.” 


ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for MAY, ms. 


D 

M 

Long. 

I^’s 

Hut. 

i)’s 

Node. 

T?’s 

Lat. 

V* 

Lat, 

$ ’s 
Lat. 

Q’s 

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Lat. 

1 

4 

26 

0 n19 .25X29 

0 n 39 

1 Os 17 

1 s 39 

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0 s 54 

7 

4 

42 

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18 

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13 

4 

59 

0 19 

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0 

39 

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19 

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1 

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19 

5 

16 

0 19 

24 42 

0 

38 

0 

20 

2 9 

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1 

53 

25 

5 

35 

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24 23 

0 

38 

0 

22 

2 19 

1 50 

2 

l2 

D 

0’s 

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i 

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*’s 

9’s 


$’s 

M 

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Long. 

Lat. 

Long. 

Long 

Long. 

Long. 

T 

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1 

10 £$56 

11817 

3 N 35 

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1 1£749 

17,2713 

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4839 

2 

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54 

23 31 

4 n 

12 K 38 

1 

53 

17 58 10 23 

6 

45 

3 

12 

52 

5n37 

4 46 

12 

37 

1 

57 

18 3911 35 

8 

53 

0 

13 

50 

17 35 

5 3 

12 

36 

2 

0 

19 19,12 44 

11 

(i 

5 

14 

43 

29 29 

5 7 

12 

34 

2 

3 

19 59il4 0 

13 

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6 

15 

46 

11 ©21 

4 57 

12 

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51 

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17 

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42 

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19 

40 

9 

18 

40 

17 18 

3 14 

12 

28 

2 

13 

22 3918 49 

21 

51 

10:19 

38 

29 40 

2 18 

12 

26 

2 

16 

23 19 

20 1 

24 

1 

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36 

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2 

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23 58 

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26 

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12.21 

34 

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22 25 

28 

20 

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32 

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2 

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24 49 

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25 

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27 13 

6 

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17 

26 

23 

7/15 

4 48 

12 

12 

2 

23 

27 56 

28 24' 

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45 

0 

27 

20 

22 23 

5 3 

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10 

2 

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28 35 

29 3610 

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29 

22 

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11 

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2 

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4 

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53 

2 

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0 

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11 

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2. 

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28 

26 

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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for JUNE, 1783. 


M 

D 

Long. 

9’s 

Lat. 

d’s 

Node. 

h’* 

Lat. 

2£’ s 

Lung. 

£’s 

Lat. 

1 

t w 

p»\3 

Lat. 

1 

5 

57 

0 N 19 

24 X 1 

On 38 

0 s 23 

2 

s 32 

1 N 58 

In 59 

O' 

6 

18 

0 19 

23 

42 

0 

38 

0 

24 

2 

42 

2 

1 

1 

13 

13 

6 

38 

0 19123 

23 

0 

37 

0 

25 

2 

53 

2 

2 

0 

10 

19 

6 

58 

0 19 23 

4 

0 

37 

0 

26 

3 

5 

1 

59 

1 

s 18 

25 

7 

19 

0 19 22 

45 

0 

37 

0 

28 

3 

17 

1 

52 

2 

55 

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0’s 

d’s 

d 

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h 

>’s 

W 

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c 

2’s 


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M 

Lung. 

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Lat. 

Long. 

Long. 

Long. 

Long. 

Long. 

0 

10n46 

26H16 

5 n 0 

Il'yf28 

2^7716 

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I 623 II 

32348 

2 

11 

44 

8 ® 8 

4 

52 

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2R14 

8 

17 

17 

22 

5 

4 

3 

12 

41 

19 59 

4 

31 

11 

21 

2 

12 

8 

54 

13 

32 

6 

18 

4 

13 

39 

1&52 

3 

58 

11 

17 

2 

9 

9 

32:19 

43 

7 

28 

5 

14 

36 

13 50 

3 

14 

11 

13 

*2 

6 

10 

1020 

53 

8 

34 

6 

15 

33 

25 27 

2 

22 

11 

9 

2 

3 

10 

4722 

4 

9 

36 

7 

Id 

31 

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1 

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11 

5 

2 

2 

11 

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14 

10 

35 

0 

17 

28 

20 54 

0 

15 

11 

2 

1 

56 

12 

2|24 

25111 

30 

9 

13 

25 

3^54 

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10 

58 

1 

53 

12 

39 25 

35 

12 

22 

10 

19 

23 

17 21 

2 

3 

10 

54 

1 

49 

13 

16 

26 

45 

13 

11 

11 

20 

20 

1R|.17 

3 

4 

10 

50 

1 

06 

13 

53 

27 

55 

13 

56 

12 

21 

17 

15 42 

3 

58 

10 

46 

1 

42 

14 

30 

29 

5 

14 

36 

13 

22 

14 

0/34 

4 

37 

30 

42 

1 

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15 

7 

0£14 

15 

12 

14 

23 

12 

15 44 

4 

58 

10 

38 

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1 

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57 

30 

34 

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29 

16 

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6 

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31 

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52 

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1 

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17 

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52 

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10 

8 

0 

59 

19 

53 

9 

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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for JULY, 17 R 3 .' 


D 

M 

Lou 

’s 

S- 

Lat. 

<t’s 

Is, ode 

T?’s 

Lat. 

V* 

Lat. 

$*« 

Lat. 

Lat. 

! S’* 

j Lat. 

1 

7 

41 

0 n 19 22X25: 0 n 35 

Os 29 

3 s 28 

; In 42 

; 4 s 16 

7 

8 

3 

0 19 22 6 

0 

35 

0 

30 

3 

40 

1. 1 

27 

'j 4 n 51 

13 

8 

24 

0 19 21 47 

1 0 

35 

0 

31 

3 

51 

1 1 

9 

' 4 30 

19 

8 

45 

0 19 21 28 

1 0 

34 

0 

32 

4 

2 

l| 0 

47 

j 3 26 

25 

9 

6 

0 19 21 9 

0 

31 

0 

33 

4 

13 

1 0 

21 

1 59 

D 

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d’s 

j (£’s 

h 

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It’s 


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2’s 

S’s 

M 

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Long-. 

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Long 

Long. 

Long. 

Long. 

Long. 

1 

9$ 25 

235359 

3 n 59 9yf25 

29y?5 7 

25X33 20X52!l3«54 

2 

10 

22 

10^156 

3 15| 9R20 

29K-50 

26 

6 21 

59;13R19 

311 

19 

22 59 

2 23^ 9 

16 

29 

43 

26 

38 23 

7|12 42 

4 12 

16 

5l$10 

1 23; 9 

11 

29 

36 

27 

11 24 

1412 2 

■V s 

13 

17 32 

0 18 

9 

7 

29 

29 

27 

43 25 

22:11 24 

©14 

11 

0=^11 

Os 49; 9 

2 

29 

22 

28 

14 26 

2910 48 

715 

8 

13 9 

1 55 

8 

58 

29 

11'28 

45 27 

3610 15 

8 16 

5 

26 31 

2 58 

8 

54 

29 

7 

29 

15 28 

43 

l 9 45 

917 

2 

101^19 

3 52 

: 8 

49 

29 

0 

29 

46 29 

49 

9 16 

1018 

1- 

0 

24 35 

4 53 

1 8 

45 

28 

52 

0<y 16 

i orr#55 

! 8 49 

1118 

57 

9/17 

4 58 

j 8 

40 

28 

45 

0 

46 

2 

2 

8 27 

12 19 

54 

24 19 

5 4 

8 

36 

28 

37 

1 

15 

3 

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8 10 

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5.1 

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4 48 

8 

32 

28 

30 

1 

45 

4 

14 

7 58 

14 21 

48 

24 49 

4 11 

8 

28 

28 

22 

2 

14 

5 

19 

7 51 

15 22 

) 

46 

9ZZ56 

3 18 

8 

24 

28 

14 

2 

42 

6 

25 

71) 49 

16'23 

43 

24 43 

2 12 

8 

1928 

7 

3 

10 

7 

31 

7 52 

17 24 

40 

9X 6 

0 59 

8 

1527 

59 

3 

38 

8 

S6 

8 0 

1825 

37 

22 59 

On 16 

3 

11 27 

51 

4 

5 

9 

41 8 15 

1926 

35 

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1 27; 

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44 

4 

33 

10 

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29 

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3 26 

7 

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9 34 

22 

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7 

5527 

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5 

51 

13 

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26 31 

4 42 

7 

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13 

6 

17 

15 

410 55 

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1 

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ASTRONOMICAL TABLES for AUGUST, 1783. 


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9 

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32 

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ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPANION. S27 

PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATUM. 
EXTRACT XV. 

Anno 1651—He made peace with the Dutch, sent a 
fleet to the West Indies, under the command of Pen, made 
a league with Sweden, kc.; he had now the Sun to the 
Sextile of Venus in mundo dd. but in the second table the 
Q ad >jc 5, and indeed either of them may be allowed 
such an effect:. 

Anno 1655.—His army in the West Indies was destroyed 
by the oversight of the commander ; the fleet took Jamaica} _ 
lie received addresses from divers parts of the nation, and 
he appoints a committee to provide relief for the poor 
Protestants in Piedmont. He had now his Moon directed 
to the Trine of Mars in Zodiaco S. I. but a very ill 
revolution, Mars on his ascendant in square to the Moon. 

Anno 16.56.—There was a plot against his life by some 
of bis guard, and also to set White-hall on fire ; but it was 
discovered, and Sindercom apprehended, and also con¬ 
demned for it, but died in the Tower; and as it was supposed 
he poisoned himself. The protector also called a parliament, 
or something like it, who confirmed him in his title and 
power that he had before : He had now his Sun ad □ $ 
in Zodiaco, and to the parallel of Jupiter in Zodiaco also; 
which are very like the effects of this year, In his revo¬ 
lution he had his Sun in conjunction with Jupiter and trine 
of Saturn, and the Moon in trine to the Sun and Jupiter, 
and in conjunction with Saturn. 

Ajmo 1657.—He sent forces into Flanders to fight the 


SS8 THE SPIRIT OF partridge; or, 

Spaniards, he took Dunkirk, &c. He had now the Mood 
ad * ^ in Zodiaco S. L. and the Sun ad □ f? in Zodiaco 
likewise. In the revolution he had his Moon on the 
radical ascendant in trine to Saturn. 

But in Anno 1058.—After the great success of his army 
in Flanders, the confirmation of his title, and many other 
public affairs of state being dispatched by him ; as the 
relief of the persecuted Protestants in Poland and Bohemia, 
his preserving those in Piedmont from the French perser 
cution, &c. On September the Sd, he died of an inter¬ 
mitting fever, having been sick about a month, and w«s 
taken at Hamptou-court, to which place he resorted once 
a week. I know some pretend he was poisoned, and also 
say they knew the man, which was one of the physicians; 
and so let him be for me, for that doth not concern my 
business here in hand: If his doctor did poison him, and 
then brag of it, I think he was a very ill man; for what¬ 
ever Oliver was, either as to his power, principles, or 
religion, if very bad in all, was no authority for him to 
commit a private murder, nor any way extenuate his 
crimes of murder and blood;. but aggravated and made 
more hainous, as being done by his physician; which would 
be of ill consequence, should such things grow into custom 
and approbation;, and whoever should encourage such a 
thing, would be very unwilling to suffer by the same way 
themselvesi therefore in a word, if the physician did do 
it, 1 think he was the worst of men. About June this 
year, the Moon, who is giver of life, came to the parallel of 
Mars in Mundo Motu Converso; and about the latter end 
of August following, he had the Moon to the parallel of 


astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 32Q 

Mars in mundo motu director and this followed by the 
Moon to her own square in Zodiaco Sine Iat. the Moon to 
the parallel of Saturn in mundo motu directo & motu 
( onverso; the Moon to the square of Saturn in mundo 
motu Converso, also to the square of Mars in mundo motu 
( onserso. Thus you see he had seven directions violent 
and malefick (and not one good direction between) to kill 
him : which not only in this; but in any other C3se to the 
Giver of Life, shall do the same without shamming in the 
ascendant to the square of Mars, as our Popish conjurer 
you see hath done; and yet at the same time take the con¬ 
fidence to tell the world the Horoscope was Giver of Life, 
when the Sun is but eleven degrees S3 minutes distant 
from the ascendant, which according to all the Astrological 
authors that I have read, is, and ought to be Giver of Life. 
As you may see in Ptolomy’s Quadriparti, lib. S, cap. 13, 
Carnpanella, lib. 4, cap. 4, artic. 2, with many others that 
I would desire the worthy gentleman to look over, and 
examine them well, and after he hath done that to resolve 
us what he means by that expression in his Doctrine of 
Nativities, pag. 258, where he says, the Sun cannot be 
giver of life, if he were in an aphetical place, because th6 
birth is nocturqal. Methinks it sounds a little odd. 

But yet further to clear this point about the Hileg; 
because I have mentioned my authority for it, I will also 
prove it plainly from my author’s words, with the book 
and chapter, lest he may reassume his accustomed gift of 
impudencq, and deny my quotations, as he did in his reply 
to my almanack of 1687, when those quotations were really 
true, as these are. The translation that 1 use, is that of 


S30 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR, 

Melancthon, which is the best translation of Ptolomy in 
being, and hath I think given the truest meaning of 
Ptolomv’s words; and if you please but to look into the 
eleventh chapter of that Quadripartite, aud the third book, 
you will there find these words:— Cum autem quairimus in 
his locis potentimmum, primus erit Medium Cceli t deinde 
Horoscopus , posted nndccima domus succedens Medio Cceh> 
deinde occasius, posted IS onus domus Anteccdens Medium 
Cceli. In this chapter he is labouring to prove, and also 
to lay down by rule the place of the prorogator; and after 
he hath spent some time to show the prorogatory place 
in general, he comes in the words beforementioned to the 
particulars, and which of them do precede in power and 
order; and therefore, says he, when we inquire who is 
most powerful in these places, the first in order is the 
mid-heaven; next after that the ascendant, then the 
eleventh house, then the seventh, and last of all the ninth. 
And the reason why he is so particular in this case, is 
because the Sun and Moon may be sometimes both in 
prorogatory places, and both contend for priority; there¬ 
fore in such a ease these rides are to be considered and 
compared with those of the IStii chapter of the same book ; 
by which it may be decided which t of the two have the 
real power of Hileg, or giver of life. Hence certainly our 
author by taking such pains and care to lay down particular 
rules how to elect the giver of life, did intend a greater use 
to be made of it, than any of our late pretenders, I per¬ 
ceive, are aw'are of, which seems more plain from the first 
paragraph of the 14th chapter, where he discourseth 
wholely of the Anaic-tica] point, and who or what lie 


astrologer’s pocket companion. 331 

judgeth to be Anareta, yet he allows none to be directed 
to that point, but the Hileg, or giver of life ; and, therefore, 
he begins that chapter with these words :—Invento Proro- 
gatortydLuo modi sumendi sunt, &c. 

Now, if this doctrine be true, and that the professors of 
this science will be pleased to allow the great Ptolomy a 
share in their good opinions; then this lying oracle of 
ours is quite out of doors, and besides the mark in his own 
trade, when he tells the world, that the Sun cannot be 
giver of life, if he were in an aphclieal place; as in the 
page before quoted. For when he allows the ascendant 
in Cromwell’s nativity, the power ofllileg, and the Sun at 
the same time within \2 degrees of the cusp, and locally 
in it, seems to me a substantial piece of nonsence, quite 
contradictory to the most approved authors in being, who 
allow all of them, that the ascendant is the second place in 
power to entertain the prorogntor; and that the Sun there 
is also certainly Hileg, if the Moon is not above the earth. 
So that should I insist on no other reason but this, it would 
be sufficient to prove the figure and time of his nativity 
false ; and this because he makes that imaginary direction 
of the ascendant to the square of Mars, the only one to 
pr ove the truth of the whole calculation. For if w e should 
allow such a direction in that figure, as the Sun to the 
square of Mars, (which indeed there is none before he 
should be ninety-one yea?s of age) yet it is vvholely mis¬ 
applied, and a power given to it quite distinct from tire 
order of nature, and the authority of authors; the ascend¬ 
ant not having power to kill when tfie Sun is in the 
horoscope, or «ny other place, giver of life. I have been 


534 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE; OR,' 

the plainer and fuller in this point, because it is the prin¬ 
cipal foundation of nativities, and the only thing first to 
be known in the directions and predictions about life and 
sickness, and the only thing neglected and forgotten at 
this time among the professors, both old and young ; they 
having only the name of it, but nothing of its power and 
use; but 1 have spoken enough, if understood ; and more 
will be to no purpose, if not understood. 

But again, in this nativity that he hath published and 
asserted for truth, there is another notorious error, and 
that is, he lets the Sun pass by the square of Mars, the 
square of Saturn, and body of Jupiter, lord of the eighth 
house in the fourth, that fatal place as they call it; and 
kills hint with the ascendant to one single direction only. 
Now, if we should allow that the ascendant had power, 
and did kill by direction to the square of Mars; why 
should not the Sun to tho^e three fatal directions before- 
mentioned, give the native the same effect of death long 
before, as they did now ? I know no reason to the con¬ 
trary, according to that sort of astrology which is common 
among most of the professors, but especially used by this 
our famous and most renowned nativity maker; as may 
appear by those ingenious and learned treatises ihat he 
hath befriended the world with, being filled with abund¬ 
ance of errors and contradictions. But to return to our 
business again; at the time of this great hero’s death, 
besides the directions mentioned as the true natural causes 
thereof; there were other things worth our consideration 
that did concur as concomitants to the same; and the first 
was his revolution for that year, and indeed a very re- 


astrologer’s tocket companion. 353 

markable one it was, if we consider it well and fully. And 
seeing I have mentioned something of revolutions, I will 
also speak a word or two of their use and abuse. The 
professors of this age make a great bustle about the exact 
time of a revolution, that is, to find the exact minute and 
second when the Sun comes to his radical place, for which 
purpose they have invented a great many fooleries, and to 
little purpose 5 but when this exact and critical time is 
obtained, and a figure set, they gravely tell us of strange 
and prodigious effects that the planets have by being in, 
particular houses therein; that the horoscope and mid- 
heaven of a revolutional figure, is of a great signification 
both to the native’s life and reputation. Nay, they are. 
now grown to that perfection in their trade of this kind, 
lhat they work directions in that figu'e like as they do in 
the Radix; to which purpose also they have made us a 
measure of time, with other kinds of tables to complete 
their folly, and render their art ridiculous. When indeed 
the ancient and more authentic authors have taken no 
notice of such things as these; and Ptolomy himself hath 
not above four lines in his four books that have any relation 
to the revolutions in nativities; and therefore how they 
came by all these whims, it would he worth while to con¬ 
sider, (for we have not one word about them in Firmicus 
one of the oldest astrologers we have, that came after 
Ptolomy,' and perhaps may find a spare sheet in my next 
treatise, to unriddle the juggles that they have jumbled 
together to cheat themselves, and the rest of mankind. 
For I do assure you, there is nothing in their method of 
revolution, neither can they fetch their authority further 


834 THE SPIRIT or PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

Lack than Origanus, Al gol, Schoner, Hispalensis, Junctine* 
and two or three more of them that have taken it upon 
very slender authority, and they that still follow, do every 
one endeavour to improve the errors of him that went 
before. For I will now soberly ask one question, and 
that is, to tell me what they have found in the revolutional 
directions, that was not as plainly discovered by the tran¬ 
sits in the revolution, and the returns ) If so, what should 
we go to make abundance of confusion when it may be 
done with less trouble? And to be plain with you, the 
truth and mystery of revolutions doth really consist in 
nothing else but the transits and returns of the planets to 
the radical points and parts of the nativity, and to the 
places of direction. And to this end there is no need of 
abundance of labour to gain the exact time of the Suns 
return to his radical place j if you miss ten minutes of it in 
time, it will be no great matter of error in your judgment, 
if you understand your business. And to say the truth 
the radical figure may very well serve for every revolution 
throughout the native’s whole life, placing the planets in 
the degrees of those signs that they shall be found in at 
the time of the Sun’s return to his radical place, or near it. 
And after this manner I will give the figure of this great 
native’s final revolution, and it is as followeth:— 



astrologer’s POCKET COMPANION. 3S : S 



[To bo Continued.] 


















330 THE SPtR.IT OF partridge, &c« 

NOTICE. 

In consequence of the difficulty of making the calculations 
for the Astronomical Tables in the short space of a week, with 
the correctness so essentially necessary, We beg leave to in¬ 
form our readers, that, for the present, at least, ** The Spirit of 
Partridge” will appear once a Fortnight after No. 16, instead of 
Weekly as before. 1 


TO CORRESPONDENTS, 

M. C. will find a Letter for him at our publisher’s. 

M. ZZ S. is received, and will be attended to shortly. 

J. H. is perfectly right, respecting the Motion of Direction. 

Q. G. R. is informed that the Work he alludes to, is not a 
work fit fora young beginner he had better have Wilson’s 
Astrological Dictionary. 

M. S. F.’s cannot be attended to as requested, as the Na¬ 
tivity will require too much labour in calculation. 

Miss G. will find the New Astronomical Diagram very use¬ 
ful in explaining the Aspects of the Planets. 

P. S. will find the New Translation of Ptolomy very different 
from Sibley’s. 


ERRATA. 

No, XV. p. 301,1. 1,/or end, read. ends. 

1. 4, for assists, read assist, 
p. 303,1. 2, after decumbiture, leave out or. 


All communications to be addressed to the Editor, post¬ 
paid, at Messrs. Davis and Dickson, 17, St, Martin Vle- 
Graud. 


Pavis & Dickson, Printers, 

St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London. 






THE 

SPZXtZT OT PARTRIDGE; 

OR, THE 

ASTROLOGER'S POCKET COMPANION , 

AND 

GENERAL MAGAZINE. 

No. XVII. Saturday , January 15, 1825. [Price 6 d. 

TO THE EDITOR OF “ THE SPIRIT OF 
PARTRIDGE.” 

Sir, 

I presume you have observed the unmanly remarks, 
which the learned editors of the late “ Straggling Astro¬ 
loger ,” were disposed to make, relative to my letter of the 
first of September last, which they refused to insert, under 
artful insinuations , that it “ is too replete with party- 
spirit to be inserted.” Now as many scientific characters 
are anxious to see that letter laid before the public, con¬ 
ceiving that it must contain something of an extraordinary 
nature, I have herewith communicated a copy of it for 
insertion in your useful and valuable work, that the reader 
may observe, that notwithstanding the vast fund of Astro, 
logical Literature, which those learned editors possess, yet 
they dare not give publicity to my plain observations, which 
are founded on truth ; and chiefly relate to the rectifi¬ 
cation of an illustrious geniture ; but I am w illing to make 
some allowance for such hasty and censorious conduct, 
as those fulsome and ignominious animadversions appear to 
have been brought forth, during the expiring agonies of 
their “ BANTLING,” ** The Straggling Astrologer .” 

Iam, Sir, your obedient servant, 

Lincoln, Jan. 6th, 1825. JOJHtN WORSDALE, 




338 


THE SPIRIT OP FARTRIDGE j OR, 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ STRAGGLING 
ASTROLOGER.” 

Sir, 

I have observed the Nativity of our gracious Sovereign 
George the Fourth, which has appeared in the twelfth 
Number of your Publication, under the signature of 
Raphael , but as that correspondent has committed the 
✓most flagrant errors in computation, and particularly in 
judgment, I consider it a duty incumbent on me to lay 
them before the public, for the improvement of such as 
are disposed to avoid similar inaccuracies in their practice, 
uot doubting that you will insert my observations, which 
l presume will be attended to with pleasure, by those w ho 
are students in this department of Astronomy. 

I shall first call the attention of the Reader to the 
“ proof of the correctness of the Horoscope as Raphael is 
pleased to stile it. The writer certainly cannot suppose 
that any students in this sciccnce, (I mean those who arc 
masters of directional motion in all its parts,) will for a 
moment believe any of those false and desultory assertions. 
Jt is too much to inform the community, that his Majesty 
was born on the 12th of August 1762, at eleven minutes 
past eight in the morning; which, by true calculation 
proves the time Raphael has given, to be nearly one hour 
false ; for the magazines and other publications, including 
the new History of London, page 416, inform us, that the 
time of birth was a little past seven in the morning, and 
the latest accounts on record, state the time to be twenty - 
four minutes past seven ; from this information I shall im¬ 
partially explain how far Raphael hat proved the “ correctness 


ASTROLOGERS POCKET COMPANION. 33$ 

V iiie Horoscope," by the effects of the Sun’s direction to 
the zenith, which the reader shall presently comprehend. 

Every superficial obverver will candidly acknowledge, 
from what has been stated, that the time the writer has 
given is far from truth, which is further corroborated, 
not only by the nature of the directions which exhibit the 
difference between t/ie causes and effects, but by many 
written documents from respectable authority; yet not¬ 
withstanding these obvious facts, it is evident that nothing 
could be done, or thought of, to suit the purpose of 
■Raphael, in.point of rectification, but the midheaven to 
the body of the Sun for the coronation of his Majesty. 
The writer then goes to work, alters the time near an hour 
later than it ought to be, and makes the arc of direction 
58° 6*, so that by Naibod’s measure of time, or something 
like it, which he appears to have used, answers to 58 years 
and 11 months; thus we see how easily such scientific 
characters can dispose of the celestial bodies, and place 
them on paper at pleasure, to answer their purpose, not 
paying the least attention to the true method for obtaining 
the correct time of birth; and these blunders are what 
some please to call, the true way or rectifying na¬ 
tivities. 

The midheaven to the body of the Sun was not in ope¬ 
ration at the time of the coronation of his Majesty, so that 
it could not give any effect ; but there were other directions 
in action at that period, which produced the eyent, and 
are clearly visible in the true figure of birtn. Raphael in¬ 
forms us that the Ascendant appears to be the 26^ of Virgo, 
by w’hich it is probable he has forgot to take the motions 


I 


340 THE SPIRIT OF FARTRIDGE j OR, 

of the constellations into consideration, which are now' far 
removed from their ancient places. The terms of the 
planets, which are of the greatest importance, have like¬ 
wise varied considerably by their progressive movements, 
and are not now to be discovered near their former posi¬ 
tions, without which no correct prediction can be pre¬ 
viously ascertained; but I hope and trust that all these 
things are well known to your correspondent, who has 
learnedly given the computation of the arc of direction of 
the midheaven to the body of the Sun, which is by no 
means a laborious operation f for it cannot be difficult for 
any school-boy to subtract the right ascension of the Me¬ 
dium Cceli, from the right ascension of the Sun. 1 am 
astonished that 'Raphael should give the work of that 
direction at large in figures, and not notice the easy com¬ 
putation of the arc of direction of the* ascendant to the 
opposition of Saturn, or the midheaven to his square in 
Mundo, which is the same, and may be proved by the use 
of the celestial globe; however, I will here perform that 1 
simple operation from the false Figure given by Raphael , 
without any alteration in time, and then it will be seen 
that, after all this confusion and bustle, nothing can be ob¬ 
tained but incorrect arcs, erroneous computations and 
judgment, which will perpetually remain false and ground¬ 
less. 




astrologer's pocket companion. 


341 


The Ascendant to the Opposition of Saturn is thus 
computed. 


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Semidiurnal Arc of Saturn - - - - 98 48 

His right ascension add - - - - - 23 24 

And the sum will be - - - 122 12 

Subtract the right ascension of the MediumCceli 83 48 

Arc of direction - . - . . - 38 24 


Another Way . 

V Q C 

To the right ascension of Saturn, with the Circle 383 24 
Add his ascensional difference under the pole of 

birth -------- g 48 

And the oblique descension of Saturn is - - 392 12 

Oblique descension of the Western angle, sub¬ 
tract - - - - • - - 353 43 

Directions arc, as above - . - 38 24 


The computation of this direction can afford but little 
amusement to the scientific reader, as the operation is per¬ 
formed from the incorrect positions of the celestial bodies 
given by Raphael , who has also erroneously computed the 
place of the part of fortune, but I have illustrated all these 
subjects in my original work on the Calculation of Thirty 
modern Genitures, which is now in the press. Hoping that 
Raphael will favor the public with his proper address , and 
that he will also have the goodness to give a list of some of 
the principal directiens t with their effects , in the illustrious 








Sit TUB SPIRIT ov PARTRIDGE; OR, 

geniture of oar Sovereign; by doing which lie will greatly 

oblige the students in this sacred science, as well as. 

Sir, your obedient servant. 

Near the Cathedral, JOHN WQRSDALE. 

Lincoln, September 1st 1824. 

*** I intend shortly to communicate an interesting Na¬ 
tivity for insertion in this Publication | and shall hereafter 
make a few remarks on the geniture of S. Fowler, who was 
burned to death, which is recorded in the late Straggling 
Astrologer. 1 ” 

”O^Oe~ 


EFFECTS OF ASPECTS. 

[Continued from Page 324.] 

The Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury , 

If the Sun be significator gives some ingenuity, though 
not much sound judgment. If Mercury be significator, he 
represents a person of mean and shallow abilities; one ad¬ 
dicted to fraud and deception, incapable of learning any 
thing which requires memory or judgment, extremely 
superstitious; he may succeed well in business, but for 
study he is wholly unqualified. 

The Conjunction of the Sun and Moon, 

If the Sun be significator, represents a person restless 
and changeable, aiming at great things, but seldom ac¬ 
complishing them. 

If the Moon be significator, the quermtt is very unfor¬ 
tunate oppressed by men in power; he is violent and rash, 
^abject to burns and scalds; he has frequently some defect 



astrologer’s pocket companion. $45 

in the eyes; if the Moon be applying, he ism danger of 
death, but if separating, the danger is not so great. 

The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury ,. 

If Venus be signiftcator, represents one polite, courteous 
and mild, fond of the elegant branches of literature, a plea¬ 
sant companion, a favourite of females, and of an excellent 
disposition. 

If Mercury be signiftcator, he excels in any pursuit that 
requires taste; a good painter, an excellent musician or 
poet, of the most prepossessing appearance, of a humane 
disposition. It must be observed with the most scrupulous 
attention, whether these planets have any other familiarity 
at the same time, for should Saturn or Mars be in square, 
it will make a most remarkable difference. 

The Conjunction of Venus and the Moon, 

If the Moon be signiftcator, makes a man mutable and 
uncertain, often promising, through goodness of disposi¬ 
tion, much more than he is capable of performing. 

If the Moon be signiftcator, he is of an easy happy dis¬ 
position, with little care beyond the enjoyment of the pre¬ 
sent moment, a great proficient in all elegant amusements f 
and of an easy and genteel address. 

The Conjunction of Mercury and the Moon, 

If Mercury be signiftcator, the native is possessed of 
great abilities, though generally very unsteady in his pur¬ 
suits ; he frequently travels in some literary capacity. 

If the Moon be signiftcator, the effects are not very dif¬ 
ferent; his intellectual powers are of the first order; he is 
much attached to learning, and he gains great reputation 
by his abilities. 


544 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE y OR, 


OF THE SEXTILE AND TRINE, 

The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter. 

If Saturn be significator gives riches by agriculture, and 
a sedate religious disposition. If Jupiter be significator, he 
is extremely grave, and often obtains riches by legacies or 
mining concerns. 

The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Mars , 

If Saturn be significator, increases the courage of the 
person so signified,and renders him more open in his resent¬ 
ment. If Mars be significator, he is prudent and cautious, 
bigotted in religion, and should other aspects befriend 
him, he may gain an estate. 

The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and the Sun , 

If Saturn be significator, he is generous and noble, 
though somewhat austere in his behaviour. If the Sun be 
significator, he is ostentious, boastful and conceited; he 
may gain much by legacies. 

The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Venus , 

The former significator, he is extravagant and prodigal, 
wasting his property among females. If Venus be signi- 
Jicator, he is modest, shy and retired; he gains the favour 
of elderly people, and sometimes inherits their property. 

Sextile or Trine of Saturn and Mercury , 

If Saturn be significator, the Sextile or Trine of Mercury 
gives ingenuity and subtilty, though his talents are mostly 
employed to little purpose. If Mercury be significator, he 
is very prudent addicted to the study of arts and sciences. 


345 


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astrologer's pocket companion. 

The Sextile or Trine of Saturn and the Moon , 

And Saturn significator, makes a man changeable, jea¬ 
lous and mistrustful. If the Moon be significator, he is 
Vain and conceited, and though somewhat mean in his 
actions, he cannot plead the excuse of rashness, as he does 
nothing without much deliberation. 

Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Mars , 

If Jupiter be significator, the Sextile or Trine of Mars, 
gives bravery and spirit of military adventure: he is a good 
soldier, surgeon or chemist. If Mars be significator, he is 
noble, generous, and ambitious, and will rise rapidly in 
the army. 

Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and the Sun, 

If Jupiter be significator, the Sextile or Trine ofthe Sun 
makes one extremely fortunate, very courageous and noble 
in his disposition. If the Sun be significator, he gains 
money rapidly, is always respected, and possesses a most 
excellent disposition. 

The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Venus ; 

If Jupiter be significator, causes beauty, love, riches, 
real goodness of heart; this is the most fortunate aspect 
that can be formed. If Venus be significator, Ihe person is 
virtuous, amiable, of a noble disposition, incapable of fraud 
or malice. 

The Sextile or Trine of Jupiter and Mercury, 

If Jupiter be significator, gives great learning, sound 
judgment and excellent abilities If Mercury be significa¬ 
tor, he possesses solid sense, an open generous disposition, 
and real good fortune. 

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^346 TRE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE 5 OR, 

textile or Trine of Jupiter and the Moon , 

If Jupiter be significator, tlie Sextile or Trine makes a 
man very fortunate as a traveller beloved by females, and 
much respected by the lower order of mankind. If the 
Moon be significator, he is just and charitable, sincere in his 
friendships and generous to the full extent of his means. 
textile or Trine of Mars and the Sun, 

If Mars be significator, the Sextile or Trine of the Sun 
gives a great and noble disposition, it causes one to rise 
rapidly in the army; he is uncommonly successful in war, 
and will gain much by the patronage of men in power. 
If the Sun be significator, it confers great bravery and a 
high spirit ; he rises to grandeur by means of his inv incible 
courage and eminent military talents. 

Sextile or Trine of Mars and Venus. 

If Mars be significatpr, causes lewdt,ess and dissipation. 

it is true, his disposition is not radically bad, but he is 
extremely thoughtless and improvident; he may gain by 
females, for he seems to possess a fascinating influence, 
w hich he never fails to exert to the utmost with the fair sex. 

If Venus be significator, he is handsome, but proud, rash 
and inconsiderate, and neither remarkable for principle or 
prudence. 

Sextile or Trine of Mars and Mercury, 

If Mars be significator, the sextile-or trine of Mercury 

gives acuteness, penetration, and learning, the individual 
signified is crafty, rather hasty, and extremely confident. 

If Mercury be significator, he possesses great courage, 
is very ingenious in any mechanical trade, a good mathe¬ 
matician or astrologer, an excellent engraver, and will 
succeed in any thing that requires presence of mind, acvte- 
*ess, and ready wit. 


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.ASTR ONOMIC AL TABLES roft DEC. 1785- 


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ASTROLOGER S, POCKET COMP^NIpJT. * 

Sex tile or Trine of Mars and the Moon, 

If the Moon be in sextjile or trine to Mars, and the tatter 
significator, makes one restless and changeable, servile, 
and talkative; he travels much, and receives great assist- 

° • j 

ance from women. 

If the Mpon be significator, he is passionate, and change¬ 
able, with a high spirit and good abilities. 

Sextilc or Trine of the Sun and Moon , 

*If the Sun be significator, the sextile or trine of the 

Moon confers riches aud honour; the querent is fortunate 

■ * 

with women, aud is much respected by the multitude. 

if the Moon is significator, he is proud and aspiring; 
he is mostly successful, but his good fortune is not 
permanent. 

S extile or Trine of Venus and Mercury , 

If Venus be significator, the sextile of Mercury gives 
ingenuity, subtilty, and good nature. 

If Mercury be significator, the querent possesses a re¬ 
fined and accomplished mind ; lie is neat in his person, and 
elegant in his manners, a lover of music and the fine arts 
in general. 

The Sextile or Trine of Venus and the Moon. 

If Venus be significator, is extremely fortunate; it sig¬ 
nifies a person who is much assisted by female friends, 
and who, though unstable, often obtains considerable 
property. 

If the Moon be significator, he is gentle, obliging, and 
amiable, and is much admired by females. 

* \s Venus is never more than 4<8 deg. and ?*fercury 28 deg. 

■ from the Sun, they can form neither the sextile or trine with tliat 
luminary, nor any aspect with each other, beyond the qunitde inUe 
Aodiac. 


54$ THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE ; OR, 

Sextile or Trine of Mercury and the Moon . 

If the Moon be significator, the sextile or trine of Mer¬ 
cury is the most favourable aspect for learning or scientific 
speculations. 

If Mercury be significator, the person signified is 
nitty, ingenious, subtle, easily learning any thing to which 
he applies, and frequently acquiring many sciences with¬ 
out any assistance; he is somewhat reserved, and a little 
melancholy, but from his extensive knowledge he is always 
a useful, and sometimes a pleasant companion. 

-o^o- 

THE SQUARE AND OPPOSITION. 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and Jupiter , 

And the former significator, shows much trouble by 
means of lawyers or the clergy. 

If Jupiter be significator, he is always wretched and 
miserable, idle, unfortunate, and beggarly. 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and Mars , 

Is the aspect of cruelty and murder, and the person so 
signified is extremely unfortunate, and generally lives a 
most dejected life, and dies a violent death. 

If Mars be significator, the person signified by him is 
very malicious, treacherous, blood-thirsty, delighting in 
the most evil deeds, yet very cowardly, sly, much ad¬ 
dicted to suicide and secret revenge—of a cruel com¬ 
plexion. 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and the Sun , 

Is the aspect of infamy and contempt; the person is 
prodigal, ambitious, overbearing, hating control, very 
disagreeable in his maimers, extremely unfortunate, sub- 



astrologer’s pocket COMPANroy. 340 

ject to the frowns of persons in power, and often meets a 
violent death. 

If the Sun be significator, the person is cowardly, 
spiteful, treacherous, malicious, unfeeling, covetous, re¬ 
pining, always despising any thing of kindness and hu¬ 
manity, and generally leads a life of wretchedness, and 
frequently meets with a bad end, and sometimes he dies 
in prison. 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and Venus. 

If Saturn be significator, shews dissipation, and the 
person leads a most detestable life, connected with the 
lowest order of prostitutes, by whom he is eventually 
brought to ruin and disgrace. 

If Venus be significator, the person is generally of an 
evil complexion, and not very handsome, very sly, artful, 
full of mischief, and much addicted to dissipation, though 
not suspected, and mostly unfortunate. 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and Mercury 

Indicates a thief, cheat, or swindler, a low cunning fel¬ 
low, sly, treacherous, malicious, envious, always planning 
some scheme to deceive his most intimate friends, gene¬ 
rally forming a bad opinion of every one, and not very par¬ 
ticular as to speaking the truth. 

If Mercury be significator, the person is very artful, 
always involved in strife and contention, and much given 
to vilifying the characters of others, by whom he is tor¬ 
mented with law-suits j it also indicates pettyfogging at- 
tornies, who seldom act honestly towards their clients. 


3>o 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE, OR, 

The Square or Opposition of Saturn and the Moon, 
Makes the person a wanderer, not one of the most genteel 
form, inclined to stoop forward, down-looking, always ap¬ 
pearing full of trouble, very fretful, and not one of the best 
dispositions; rather changeable, and consequently Dot to 
be depended on, he seldom attains a very high station 
in life ; if he does, he seldom fails to fall into some great 
disgrace. 

If the Moon be significator ( which she always is) the per¬ 
son is extremely unfortunate, always in trouble with the 
lower order of mankind, from whom he receives many inju¬ 
ries; ratheV unhealthy, mean, cowardly, and very dejected, 
seldom living a long life, and dying a miserable death. 

The Square or Opposition of Jupiter and Mars, 

If Jupiter be significator, the square or opposition of 
Mars, denotes Violence, ingratitude, a furious temper, and 
danger of death by malignant fevers. 

If Mars be significator, it signifies ingratitude, pride, 
insolence, and the hatred of the clergy on account of theo¬ 
logical opinions. 

The Square or Opposition of Jupiter and the Sun. 

If Jupiter be significator, gives arrogance, prodigality, 
much vanity, and a great desire to be distinguished, 
which is scarcely ever gratified. . 

If the Sun be significator, the person represented wastes 
his property by riotous living, and all kinds of extrava¬ 
gance. 

The Square or Opposition of Jupiter and Venus. 

If Jupiter be significator, it causes extravagance, dis¬ 
sipation, and all kinds of debauchery and intemperance’. 


A9T&OLOGKR’s POCKET COMPANION, Sol 

If V eijus be significator, it causes many enemies in the 
church and the legal profession; the person signified is 

equally void of prudence and virtue. 

( 

The Square or Opposition of Jupiter and Mercury t 

And the former significator, gives trouble, contention, 
perplexities, law-suits, and consequently indigence. 

If Mercury be significator, the person is frequently 
persecuted for his singular religious opinions; his under¬ 
standing is weak, and he is often involved in strife and 
contention. 

The Square or Opposition of Jupiter and the Moon, 

If Jupiter be significator, shews one of many words, 
though of poor abilities; he is weak and foolish, and if in 
r public capacity, is execrated by the multitude. 

If the Moon be significator, he is injured byfaitldq&i 
friends and deceitful relatives, and his property is impo¬ 
verished by hypocritical fanatics. 

The Square or Opposition of Mars and the Sun , 

And the former significator, makes a man of great ambi¬ 
tion and violence : but his fortune is too bad to allow him 
to succeed. 

If the Sun be significator, he is restrained by no prin¬ 
ciple of honour or gratitude; Ins affairs are always de¬ 
ranged, and he makes use of the most violent means to 
retrieve them; such a man frequently becomes a mur¬ 
derer, footpad, or housebreaker, and is either killed in 
sopie contest, or falls a victim to the laws of his country. 


552 


THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE J OR, 

The Square or Opposition of Mars and Venus, 

If Mars be significator, the square or opposition of Venus 
causes lust, prodigality, and excess, disease and injury by 
loose women, and complete waste of fortune. If Venus be 
significator, he is treacherous, mischievous, base, and in¬ 
constant 5 or if a woman, it signifies a prostitute. 

The Square and Opposition of Mars and Mercury, 

If Mars be signifieator, shows one of some ability, but 
his talents are applied to the most dishonorable purposes. 
If Mercury be significator, it makes a thief, or assassin j 
one whose most solemn protestations are not to be believed, 
who will desert his benefactors at their greatest need : he 
is violent, furious, contentious, and is despised by every 
one for his infamous life. 

The Square or Opposition of Mars and the Moon. 

If Mars be significator, the square or opposition of the 
Moon, makes one who is a fit companion for the lowest 
and most unprincipled of mankind; he is very unfortunate, 
and is probably a wandering vagabond, who travels over 
the earth without a friend or a home. If the Moon be 
significator, he is excessively abusive, malicious, and 
treacherous: he may travel in foreign countries, as a sailor 
or soldier, amidst innumerable dangers and hardships, and 
dies by pestilence, dysentry, or the sword. 

The Square or Opposition of the Sun and Moon , 

If the Sun be significator, gives losses, trouble, and 
much anxiety. If the Moon be significator, the person 
signified, is obstinate and quarrelsome : he is exceedingly 
ambitious and prodigal, and is sometimes marked in the 
face, and in some cases is eyes are affected. 


astrologer's pocket companion. 


35$ 


The Square or Opposition of Venus and the Moon, 

If the former be significator, shows a changeable and 
unsettled life, great troubles in marriage, and much ill 
fortune. If Venus be significator, it shows a dissolute ex¬ 
travagant course of life, attended with indigence and 
poverty, and much trouble from females. 

The Square or Opposition of Mercury and the Moon , 

If Mercury be significator, undoubtedly gives some 
abilities, although such persons ar^ too unsettled to apply 
very closely to any subject; they are continually shifting 
their situation, and neither very sincere in their professions 
of friendship, or very scrupulous in the method by which 
they attain their ends. 

It is to be observed in nativities, that the Sun, Moon, 
and Mercury are significators, therefore, the description 
of aspects of the other planets, can apply to horary ques¬ 
tions only. In the horary department of astrology, every 
planet rules some house, and becomes a significator of the 
particular thing which that house governs ; thus the lord 
of the ascendant is significator of life, and if afflicted by 
Mars, lord of the eighth, or house of death, would be a 
symbol of a speedy dissolution* But in a nativity, if the 
Sun were placed on the meridian, he is there hyleg or 
giver of life, and if in square to Saturn at birth, would 
cause an infirm constitution, and on a subsequent evil 
direction, the native would most probably expire. 


334 


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PARTRIDGE’S OPUS REFORMATU'M. 
EXTRACT XVI. 

Having considered the directions, and also the point or 
part of the ecliptic the Moon, who is giver of life, is arrived 
at in this year by direct direction in Zodiaco; and that is 
ab.out 14 degrees of Sagitary, the exact square to her own 
radical place, and at the time of the Sun’s return, going to 
the opposite point of that place, and to the square of her 
own place in the radix; Saturn and Jupiter are both re¬ 
turned to their own radical places; and so is Mars and 
the Moon to the square of theirs ; Mercury and Venus are 
in Taurus, where they were in the radix, and not far from 
their own radical places. So that you see all the planets 
are returned to their own places, except Mars and the 
Moon, and they are in square to them. Now, the use I 
shall make of the revolution is this:—The Moon, Mars, 
and Saturn, are all of them promittors by direction; Mars 
is in square to Saturn, lord of tbe radical horoscope, who 
is returned to his radical place; and the Moon, though 
hileg, yet she is here a promittor also, and is going to the 
direct opposition of the place of direction, and to the square 
ofher own place; and besides this, Mars is going to the 
muudane parallel of ttie Sun. And to sum up all, we find 
Loth the Moon and Mars in violent constellations, the 
Moon being with the aldcbaran of the nature of Mars ; 
and Mars is with those Stars in the begining of Cancer, 
called Castor & Pollux, of the nature of Saturn. So that 


astrologer’s pocket companion* S5S 

we may from the Sun’s return, and the then configurations 
compared with the directions, conclude, that according to 
second causes, it could be no less then mortal. Wiiei* 
I have done this, I always consider secondary directions* 
and progressions, and also observe if they help on the work; 
for if all concur, we may certainly judge that nothing but 
a miracle can save; and therefore under this revolution 

we find that the ascendant by secondary motion was di- 
rected to the opposition of Jupiter, the Sun under the square 
of Saturn, and had been so about six months, and the 
Moon to the opposition of Mars, and that just touclieth 
about the time of his sickness, all which are ill, and show 
a bad year. The progression began January the 2d, abo'ut 
six of the clock in the morning, Anno l60£, and was but 
an indifferent one; you may if you please, call it bad, for 
the Moon was on the Sun’s radical place, Saturn and 
Jupiter on the place of direction, in square to the Moon's 
radical place, and Mars in opposition to his own place ; 
but Venus is on the radical ascendant in conjunction with 
the Sun, and that is all that may be called good in this 
progressive lunation. But above all, the ingresses and 
transits of the planets at the time of the begining of his 
sickness, and of his death, are very remarkable; for about 
the time that he was taken sick, which was August the 
50th, there was a transit and ingress of tiie Sun on the 
Moon’s radical place, in square to the place of direction ; 
and a little before that, there was a conjunction of the 
Moon, Mars, and Mercury, on, or near the same degree, 
and so configurated as before ; and the very day of hi* 
death, the Moon did transit the radical place of Mars’s 


856 THE SPIRIT OF PARTRIDGE } &C. 

body, and Saturn’s opposition, and also in opposition to 
Saturn that very day of his death ; and the Sun in an 
exact Zodiacal parallel with Saturn, and going to the 
Zodiacal parallel of Mars, and to his conjunction also. 
Thus I have endeavoured to show you how I understand 
the method and manner of judging death by primary and 
converse directions, revolutions, secondary directions, pro¬ 
gressions, transits, and ingresses; which, if rightly under¬ 
stood and practised, would give the students in this science 
more satisfaction than all those whims published by our 
modern authors, and stolen from them by our Popish 
oracle. And I hope by this time, I have given the pro¬ 
fessors and students in this art full satisfaction, in proving 
that the nativity which Gadbury printed, was notoriously 
false, and grounded upon principles next to none; and 
that the reasons and rules given to assert its truth, are no 
ways becoming a man of skill or ingenuity, especially one 
that pretends to be the master aud head of the whole 
tribe, and endued with the advantage of twenty-five years 
experience, and more; when he wrote and published 
Cromwell’s nativity last in the year 1685. And so I come 
in the next place to give you my general judgment on the 
whole figure, after the manner that the rest of our pro¬ 
fession do on the twelve houses; and perhaps too, I may 
follow the same order in my judgment, but not in their 
rules and principles of judgment.— [Vide page J86.] 

TO CORRESPONDENTS, 

Notice. The second part of Partridge’s Opus Reformatum, 
with a selection of curious Nativities and other Interesting Matter 
on Astrology, will be published in One Volume, complete, instead 
of appearing in Numbers. 

Those Persons who sent their Nativities and Horary Questions 
for Judgment, will find their answers at our Publishers. 



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INDEX 

TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 







Page. 

.Address • • . 


0 

. X 

Astronomical characters explained • 

# . 

• 

4 

Astrology Theologically considered . 


• 

. 43 

Astronomical Figure 


ft 

49 

Algol’s Aphorisms . 


• 

. 65 

Astronomical Figure 


• 

. 69 

Argol’s Aphorisms .... 


• 

. 81 

Anecdote of Straggling Astrology 

, « 

ft 

. 102 

Anecdote of John Picus, Prince of Mirandula . 


. 131 

Answer to Paradoxes 

• • 

ft 

.* 150 

Astrological Excuse . . , 

• • 

• 

. 162 

Argol’s Aphorisms . 

• • 

ft 

. 190 

Astronomy . 

* » 

ft 

. 207 

Anecdote of Tiberius . . . 

- % % 

• 

. 230 

Anecdote of the Truth of Astrology 

• « 

. 231 . 263 

Aries . . . . . , 

• • 

m 

. 246 

Aspects, definition of, - . 

• • 

ft 

. 281 

Aquarius ..... 




Biography, Life of Cardan 


ft 

. 58 

Biography, Life of Roger Bacon 


ft 

136, 181 

Biography, Life of John Bushnell 

. 

ft 

. 138 

Biography, Life of H. C. Agrippa 

. 201, 

206, 228 

Balloon, Mr. Harris’s, the time of its ascending 


. 257 

Body, Members signified by the Planets in the different 

Signs . . . . ' . 

. » •' 

ft 

. 302 

Bourbon Family, a Prediction relative to their Restoration S26 

Cancer . 




Considerations on the general utility of Astrology 


. 14 

Configurations or Aspects . . 

\ • 


, 38 

Correspondent’s Letter , , . 

• 

f 

. 64 

Corrtspowdent’s Query . 

• ft 


. 10« 






INDEX. 


Gfcprioora ... . . 

• 


• 

. 287 

Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter . 

• 


• 

. 300 

Conjunction of Saturn and Mars 



• 

. ibid 

Conjunction of Saturn and the Sun . 

tf 


• 

. 301 

Conjunction of Saturn and Venus. . 

• 


• 

. ibid 

Conjunction of Saturn and Mercury 

% 


• 

. 319 

Conjunction of Saturn and the Moon 

• 


ft 

. 320 

Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars 

» 


m 

. ibid. 

Conjunction of Jupiter and the Sun 

• 


• 

. 521 

Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus . 

ft 


ft 

. ibid. 

Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury 

• 


ft 

. ibid. 

Conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon 

• 


ft 

. 322 

Conjunction of Mars and the Sun 

# 


. ft 

J ibid. 

Conjunction of Mars and Venus . 




. 223 

Conjunction of Mars and Mercuvy . 



• 

. ibid. 

Conjunction of Mars and the Moon 

• 


ft 

.324 

Conjunction of the Sun and Venus . 

• 


• 

• ibid. 

Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury 

• 


ft 

. 342 

Conjunction of the Sun and Moon . 

ft 


ft 

ibid. 

Conjunction of Venus and Mercury . 

ft. 


ft 

. 343 

Conjunction of Venus and the Moon 

ft 


4 

ibid. 

Conjunction of Mercury and the Moon 

• 


ft 

. ibid 

Dryden Astrological Anecdote . . 

* 


ft 

. 75 

Dialogues, Poetical .... 





Diagram, Astronomical . . . 

# V. 


ft 

. 262 

Extract I, from Partridge’s Opua Reformaturc 

i ft. 


a 29 

Extract II. . • • , .. 

M 

• 

ft 

. 52 

Extract III. ..... 


• 


l 79 

Extract IV. ..... 

ft 


» 

. 94 

Extract V. 

• 

• 

ft 

. 110 

Extract VI. ..... 


ft 

ft 

. 140 

Extract VII. ..... 

• 



. 166 

Extract VIII, . • • . . 

ft 

#. 


. 184 

Extract IX.. 

ft 

ft 

ft 

. 215 

Extract X.. 

ft 

ft 

ft 

. 232 

Extract XI. ..... 

ft 

• 

ft 

. 251 

Extract XII. 


• 

«. 

. 268 

Extract XIII. 

4 

• 


. 290 

Extract XIV. i • 


* 

• 

306 

Extract XV. . v . 



ft 

. 327 

Extract XVI .... 



• 

• 

Eixed Stars, Observation on, .. 

* 

a 

. 

. 373 













INDEX. 


George III. Revolutional Figure . . • 9$6 

Gemini.. . • 943 


Herschel, Observation on. 
Horary Question of a Law suit 


. 13 
. air 


Introduction to Astronomy 
Introduction to Astrology 


. 34 
. 61 


Jupiter, Observations on. 
Judgment on a Horary Question 
Jupiter in the 12 Signs . 


. 106 
. 313 

• . 122 


Letter to the Editor from Tyro 
Letter to the Editor from R. C. Smith 
Letter to the Editor from H. T. 

Letter to the Editor from J. W. • 

Letter to the Editor from Tyro . . • 

Letter to the Editor from Z. . 

Letter to the Editor, from J* Partridge, jun. 
Letter to the Editor from P. Q.. . * 

Letter to the Editor from a Young Astrologer 

Leo. 

Libra.. 

Letter from Mr. J, Worsdale . . . 


. 22 
. 42 
. 121 
. 126 
. 171 
. 174 
. 154 
. 250 
. 318 
. 264 
. 266 
. 337 


Metrological Table. 160 

Mars in the Twelve Signs ...... 146 

Mercury in the Twelve Signs ...... 196 

Method of erecting a Revolutional Figure . . . 282 

Moon. 223 

Nativity of Queen Caroline . ..... 5 

Nativity of Lord Byron.26 

Nativity of Dr. Sibley, P. A.89 

Nativity of Oliver Cromwell . * . . . • 109 

Nativity of Letitia M-—s.123 

Nativity of S. T. now living 152 

Nativity of Due de Bourdeaux.• 173 

Nativity of George III. 193 

Nativity of Dr. Mitchel, P. A. t . . . • 217 

Nativity of a Child whose death was predicted by the editor 277 
Nativity of Elizabeth of Clarence . • . . . 297 


Observations on the Weather . . . 

Observation on the Moon’s application and 
from the different Planets . ► '. 


. 17 

eparation 
100, 127, 144 









INDEX, 


Observations on the Xatuie of the Planet* . . . 104 

Observations on the nature of the Signs of the Zodiac . 84* 
Observations on the Aspects of the Planets * . .299 

Paradox 60 

Paradox , , . < • • * . . . T8 

Paradox .. .151 

Pisces .. 289 

Saturn ..88 

Sun ..155 

Scorpio.267 

Sagittarius.286 

Sextile of all the Planets.344 

Square of all the Planets 348 

Table of the Magnitudes, Periods and Revolutions of the 

Planets'.. . .8 

Transits, Observations on.164 

Table of the Directions in Oliver Cromwell’s Nativity . 208 

Taurus . . ' .217 

Table of Essential Dignities of the Planets . . . 28S 

Table to Reduce the Planets Places to any given Time . 304 

Venus ••••.*«••* 176 

Virgo ... 265 

Watson’s Challenge to the Astrologers .... 194 


The Table for reduciug the Moon’s Motions is not paged, 
nor yet is the Epbemeris for 1780, 81, 82 and 83, complete, so 
that they may be taken out without detriment to the work. 


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